Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...experience with violent crime occurred just recently when I was robbed at gunpoint in front of my home. The outrage I feel and the trauma my family has suffered cannot be imagined...
...terrorists lost one in Bangkok, they won in another hijack drama in Managua, Nicaragua. A Honduran Sahsa Airlines Boeing 737 was commandeered at gunpoint by five hijackers demanding the release of 15 leftists imprisoned in Honduras. In a complicated deal, the Honduran government agreed to free the prisoners if the plane's 50 passengers and six crew members were released into the custody of Panamanian authorities, acting as intermediaries. The plane was flown to Panama, where the passengers were released, and three days later a Panamanian Air Force jet was dispatched to Honduras to pick up ten leftist prisoners...
...raped. Well, let me tell you, Karen is not the most beautiful creature in the world, so when I hear her say she was raped, my response is 'You wish.' " Brown's comment was inexcusable: Mulhauser had indeed been raped by two men, at gunpoint, both of whom were convicted and imprisoned. Pro-choice advocates have also been guilty of excess. Says Lynn Walker, director of a feminist women's health center in California: "The pro-lifers are very dangerous people. They are not pro-children. They are antisex. And when they're done with...
...Herat (pop. 50,000) used to be a popular tourist spot. Today it is a lawless ghost town, a kind of Tombstone, Ariz., of Afghanistan. Rival bands of mujahidin, who long since took over, roam almost everywhere at will, answering to no one. Bandit gangs rob and pillage at gunpoint. Citizens, if caught out of doors, can be routinely gunned down in the street. Shortly after we arrived, a young businessman tried to illustrate the pervasiveness of the violence: "I went home to change my clothes at 10:30 this morning-and got caught in a firefight. That night...
...Reign of Terror wed murder to freedom. All the revolutions since have sealed the knot, if only theoretically, and somewhere in the modern mind may lie the automatic connection of assassination with something good and hopeful. That would be especially true of places where corrupt administrations are unseated at gunpoint. The assassin states in turn may depend on that connection, trusting that the elimination of ex-employees of defunct governments will be held akin to the expunging of the Tsars...