Word: gunning
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...route closer to hand, the guerrillas grew more brazen, attacking Serb police and military camps. Four rebels maintaining a checkpoint at the border village of Smonica two weeks ago were cocky with confidence they could take on the Serbs. "I hate them so much that if I fired my gun up in the air, the bullet would find its own way right between some Serb's eyes," said one of the guards, cradling his rifle. "Every day people come to me on their knees and beg me to give them weapons to fight," said another, a tough guy in sneakers...
...want more? Do you want the whole skinny on the depth of Faye Yager's rage? The second husband was a nut job too. A monster. He held a gun to her neck, threatened her, played with her, and when she finally told him to go to hell, he pulled the trigger and shot himself in the head...
...grisly tale ripped from the pages of a thriller: Vice-corporal Cedric Tornay, a 23-year-old noncommissioned officer in the pope's elite Swiss guard, disgruntled by lack of recognition, reprimanded for staying out all night, shot his new commander and the commander's wife before turning the gun on himself. But that was the tragic reality that Vatican City woke up to Tuesday morning, when the sleepy center of Roman Catholicism was rocked by its first murders in 150 years. "It was a fit of madness in a person with very peculiar psychological characteristics," explained Joaquin Navarro-Valls...
...appalling deaths of four innocent children and their courageous teacher in Jonesboro, Ark. [THE JONESBORO SHOOTINGS, April 6], remind us of the terrible price we all pay for the lax gun laws in our nation. We must look closely at children's access to firearms. Gun advocates repeat the mantra that if youngsters are properly trained in firearm use, they won't shoot people. The boys accused of the Jonesboro shootings were well trained, and they killed five people and wounded 10 others. You can teach kids how to use guns, but you can't train them...
...same audience, the San Antonio Bar Association, that Jaworski addressed in that year. So the independent counsel is trying to spin Intern-gate into Watergate, and himself into Jaworski. Spinning the evidence might be a taller order: Whatever else the Tripp tapes contain, they're no smoking gun...