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...base. He had a drink with a dark-haired woman dressed in blue jeans, who appeared to be with a tall mustachioed man she called Jeff. Pimental left with the couple. Next morning he was found dead, shot in the back of the neck with a large-caliber gun. Minutes after his body was found, a terrorist car bomb exploded inside the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base some 20 miles away, killing two people, both Americans, and injuring...
...Controversial Death The armed forces of the Philippines welcome the candid reporting in Anthony Spaeth's "Under the Gun" [May 9]. However, we are troubled by Mr. Spaeth's unfair use of the memory of the late Lieut. Colonel Dennis Villaneuva, a fine gentleman-officer. The article quips that Villaneuva's death is a "mystery worth pursuing," and asks, "Was Dennis Villaneuva a casualty of his employer's shoddiness?" Zeroing in on the facts, the cause of death was a heart attack secondary to massive organ malfunction due to severe loss of blood and/or bodily fluids. He died after...
...Wolfowitz set out to charm the people he is employed to help. He picked up kids, sought out ordinary workers and farmers, and even slipped into halting but serviceable French when he needed to. In Nigeria's dusty north, Wolfowitz visited a primary school renovated with Bank money. While gun-toting security guards watched anxiously, Wolfowitz enthusiastically plunged into a crowd of wide-eyed kids, most in tattered clothes, some with begging bowls. Inside, he toured a freshly painted classroom where boys in white shirts and trousers occupied two rows while girls wearing Islamic gowns and head coverings...
...year-old female gang member. As Chino worked, he talked about the thrill he got from shooting at people when he was younger. "After a while I really wanted to see myself hit someone," he said. "That is how intense it became in my relationship with my gun. So I walked up to some guys and shot them. It was a real rush...
...gang. That usually meant getting stoned, then driving a car through a rival gang's neighborhood while shooting out the window. Word got back to the parole officer that Chino was out causing trouble, and the police did a parole search of his house and found a gun. In May, Chino was back in jail--but not before he had communicated the "rush" of shooting to other gang members...