Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Among the people Gabriel knows is Manuel Salcido Uzeta, better known as "Cochi Loco" (Crazy Pig), a ruthless trafficker who owns hotels and restaurants in the resort city of Mazatlan. Once, says Gabriel, three guests at a local wedding reception annoyed Salcido. The drug lord ordered his gunmen to shoot them down. While Mexican law-enforcement officials say they cannot find him now, Mazatlan residents say they see him often, calmly eating breakfast or moving about with carloads of police bodyguards...
...white United Nations station wagon headed south on the coastal highway from the Lebanese town of Tyre. Suddenly, near the village of Ras el-Ein, a ; brown Volvo blocked the road. Gunmen leaped from the car and dragged out the station wagon's lone passenger: U.S. Marine Lieut. Colonel William Higgins, 43, the leader of a 76-man observer group attached to the U.N. Interim Force. The attackers forced him into the Volvo and sped off. That abduction last week brought to nine the number of American hostages in Lebanon...
...BEIRUT--Gunmen blocked a southern highway yesterday and abducted a top-ranking U.S. Marine officer serving with the U.N. peacekeeping force, bringing to nine the number of Americans held hostage in Lebanon...
Security sources in Tyre said two gunmen in a brown Volvo passed Higgins' car, blocked the road, forced Higgins into their car and drove north toward Tyre...
Carrying cardboard coffins draped in black, about two dozen people staged an impromptu march in Port-au-Prince last week after a memorial Mass for the more than 50 victims of last month's election-day violence. Suddenly three gunmen, by some accounts dressed in army or police uniforms, began firing into the crowd. The toll: a 25-year-old mourner dead and four seriously wounded...