Word: gunpoint
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...policy in Lebanon and the degree to which this may embolden Syria to strengthen its position at their expense. The Marines are gone from Beirut, except for a contingent guarding the U.S. embassy; a member of the embassy staff, Political Officer William Buckley, was kidnaped by three men at gunpoint as he left his apartment in West Beirut last Friday morning. Also gone, along with the Marine peace-keeping force, were the Reagan Administration's dreams of helping President Amin Gemayel rebuild his country. The leaders of Lebanon's Muslim and Christian factions met in Lausanne, Switzerland...
...neighbors only too well it has met them on the battlefield in four bloody wars, all, with the possible exception of the 1956 Suez conflict, unhated by the Arabs. In addition, over 60 per cent of Israel's Jewish citizens, many of them fluent in Arabic, immigrated, often at gunpoint, or are the descendants of immigrants from Arab lands where they were subjected to centuries of discrimination and sometimes outright persecution unmatched even by Israel's treatment of the West Bank Arabs. If Israel does in fact hale its neighbors, such antipathy certainly cannot be labelled blind. There are still...
...cafeteria employee was kidnapped at gunpoint last October 19, taken to her bank, and forced to withdraw her savings...
...Amsterdam, a gunman carrying a can of gasoline burst into Casa Rosso, a gambling and sex club in the city's red-light district. As horrified guests watched at gunpoint, the man, a former employee, doused the floor and stairs with gasoline. He then shot his pistol into a fuel can, instantly setting the place ablaze. Patrons mobbed exits and jumped from upper-story windows as the fire consumed four 17th century row houses in the brothel and casino complex. The toll at week's end: 13 dead, 25 injured...
...whom "veritas" means "Kill Blacks and commies in Grenada, wear a tie and crimson socks in Harvard yard." Weinberger's victims face a fate worse than catcalls. There was no "academic freedom" for the erstwhile students of El Salvador's National University which was closed down at gunpoint by Weinberger's thugs. From Central America to South Africa the U.S. holds the line for the "free world" through its routine use of torture and assasination of workers, peasants, leftists, students, anyone who opposes U.S. imperialism's Murder Inc. To raise the question of "free speech" in this context is obscene...