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...robbery is under way, says Roberto Salgado, director of the Brazilian Association of Guard and Security Companies, "most banks instruct the guards not to shoot where there's a chance of losing a customer or a teller." Perhaps as a result, guards often find themselves forced at gunpoint to turn over their arms to the robbers, who have harvested hundreds of weapons so far this year...
...campaign for conscientious objection, maintaining that no Nicaraguan should be punished for withholding his support from the Sandinistas. In response, Sandinista-run mobs have vandalized twelve churches, canceled processions and occasionally forced the postponement of Masses. Eight young Catholics, accused of organizing antidraft protests, were arrested by authorities at gunpoint; two priests were deported on the same charge...
...truth, of course, is different. Third world nations have long been sources of cheap labor and raw materials for the Western economics. Many countries--forced at economics and military gunpoint to become export-crop farms--are the places where hunger is most pernicious...
...over the past 15 months those in the Punjab have mounted a determined drive for greater autonomy from New Delhi. The more the government of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi has resisted, the more savage the Sikh campaign has become. Last month six men hijacked a night bus at gunpoint, herded eleven Hindu men into a field and, with cold-blooded efficiency, shot six of them dead (five escaped). Hours later, terrorists randomly opened fire in an express train, killing two officials...
Suddenly, say eyewitnesses, truckloads of soldiers roared up and fired on the crowd, slaying more than a dozen people. In the resulting pandemonium, Bishop was led away at gunpoint. That night Radio Free Grenada announced the chilling news that he was dead. He had been executed along with five other officials by the "revolutionary armed forces" under the command of General Hudson Austin...