Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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INJURED. Jerry Dunphy, 62, $450,000-a-year anchorman of Los Angeles' most popular local news program (KABC-TV's Eyewitness News); when four gunmen in an Oldsmobile pulled alongside his Rolls-Royce convertible and opened fire on him and his companion, Studio Makeup Artist Sandra Marshall, 36; in Hollywood. Dunphy, who is resting comfortably in the hospital, was struck by a bullet in his neck and one in his left arm; Marshall was shot in her right arm. At week's end no motive for the ambush had been discovered...
What had happened? Practically everybody agreed that the gunmen were right-wing Lebanese Christian militiamen. Said one officer of the Lebanese Forces: "We have been waiting to get in there for years." More baffling was the role the Israelis had played. Certainly Israeli soldiers had not done the shooting, but the Israelis controlled the area, had checkpoints near the camps, and were within earshot of the firing. How and why had they allowed the militiamen to enter the camps...
...After finishing tryouts for the ice-hockey team last week, Donald Spilky, 17, and four other students from Yeshiva University High School in Manhattan headed home by automobile to Queens on the Cross Bronx Expressway. A gunman, or gunmen, followed in a car, sped ahead of them on the expressway, and parked in waiting at an exit ramp. As the students neared the Whitestone Bridge, a volley from a high-powered automatic or semiautomatic M-16-type rifle rang out. One shot missed the students and killed Lucille Rivera, 37, a Queens mother of two who was a front-seat...
...Beirut were not allowed to carry loaded weapons, the company mess tent was decorated with a sign reading THE CAN'T SHOOT BACK SALOON. After they were finally allowed to arm themselves last spring, the sign changed to THE CAN SHOOT BACK SALOON. When Alpha Company engaged unidentified gunmen in a daylong firefight on Aug. 29, the Marines repainted the sign THE DID SHOOT BACK SALOON. "When we see the whites of their eyes, we'll do it to them," promises John Sexton. Still, for a group of highly trained, largely untested fighters, life in Beirut...
...Sunday afternoon, several young men in a predominantly Shi'ite suburb in the south of Beirut were pasting up posters of the Imam when shots were suddenly fired from a passing car, wounding at least one Shi'ite bystander. The Shi'ites maintain that the gunmen were Phalangists who, they say, have lately been venturing into the Shi'ite suburbs with increasing boldness...