Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...restaurant in West Beirut, shrugs as gunfire outside interrupts his recitation of the day's specials. "They are mad," he says. One wonders, though, who is really crazy: the snipers, Moyse or the reporter sitting by the window with only a gingham curtain between him and the unseen gunmen...
...Black June terrorist group, a breakaway faction of the Palestine Liberation Organization based in the Syrian capital of Damascus. Only three days earlier, a bus carrying some 60 Palestinian laborers from their West Bank homes to work in Jerusalem had been raked with submachine-gun fire by two masked gunmen. Seven Arabs were wounded, two seriously...
...days so he wouldn't lose his rank." Gargano, then 21, re-enlisted last June. He took part in the Grenada invasion, then was sent to Lebanon. He had been there less than two months when he landed in a helicopter near the temporary U.S. embassy in Beirut. Gunmen, waiting in ambush, opened fire and killed...
...first, the university provided Kerr with a bodyguard. But, arguing that such protection was not appropriate, Kerr dispensed with it. One morning last week the two gunmen entered the administration building unchallenged, made their way to the third floor and waited. At 9: 10 a.m., as Kerr stepped out of the elevator and be gan to walk toward his office, one of the terrorists shot him twice in the head with a gun fitted with a silencer. The gunmen escaped, and at a nearby hospital, Kerr was pronounced dead...
...values and an illustration of how seriously security has deteriorated." Particularly vulnerable at the moment are individual Americans and Frenchmen, partly because the terrorists are finding it increasingly difficult to penetrate the military bases and thus are turning their guns on relatively unprotected civilian targets. Two weeks ago gunmen on a motorbike shot and slightly wounded the wife of a French diplomat in broad daylight. As usual, the terrorists escaped...