Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...learning and an island of relative tranquillity in a scarred and anguished city. Last week it also became a monument to the senseless terror that besets all Lebanon. Its president, Malcolm Kerr, 52, whose life had been devoted to Arab culture and education, was shot dead by two unknown gunmen, apparently for no reason except that he was an American...
...caller also said that the Islamic Jihad had been responsible for the Beirut kidnaping of the Saudi consul general, Hussein Farrash, a day earlier. Farrash, 45, had been abducted by seven gunmen who intercepted his limousine as he was driving to work. According to the anonymous message, the diplomat would be tried according to Islamic law, executed, and his body would be "thrown...
Meanwhile, two Israeli soldiers died in guerrilla ambushes in southern Lebanon. Israeli Chief of Staff Lieut. General Moshe Levy blamed Palestinian fighters for the attacks. But the gunmen might also have been local Shi'ites, whose poor relations with the Israeli occupiers have steadily worsened since September, when Jerusalem redeployed its troops 17 miles south of Beirut. Since then, 39 Israelis have fallen victim to violence in southern Lebanon. Several weeks ago, the Israelis talked about pulling back ten to 15 more miles, to the Zahrani River, but U.S. officials persuaded them to delay the move at Lebanese President...
...early hours of Saturday morning six gunmen, clad in black jumpsuits and woolen ski masks, raced up to the Brinks-mat Depot No. 7 in a drab row of industrial warehouses near Heathrow Airport, 15 miles west of London. Without apparent difficulty, they slipped past the searchlights and highly sophisticated alarm system that guard the building. Once inside, the intruders overpowered seven security men, handcuffing five of them together. The other two were less fortunate: the gunmen pistol-whipped one; they slashed through the other's shirt, tickled his stomach with a knife and then poured gasoline over...
That might have ended the matter, but it did not. This fall Donovan's name cropped up during the trials of two Mafia gunmen convicted of killing a witness who had cooperated with the special prosecutor. Last week Donovan was more explicitly linked to a criminal case. This time the Labor Secretary was subpoenaed to appear at a federal court in New York City as a defense witness for two Mob-connected union officials who dealt for years with Donovan's Schiavone Construction...