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...three-year-old national Star (circ. 1.3 million) is a gaudy but not particularly profitable cousin of the mindless National Enquirer, and his San Antonio Express and News (combined circ. 156,000) is even worse (sample scoops: UNCLE TORTURES TOTS WITH HOT FORK, HANDLESS BODY FOUND, GIRLS STREAK AT GUNPOINT). Yet Murdoch also publishes Australia's only national daily, The Australian, which at least aspires to quality, and he is currently bidding to buy the respected London Observer...
Shortly after midnight on December 2, 1973, the burglars told the nightwatchman they had left a package in the museum. When the nightwatchman responded, he found himself under gunpoint. He was then taped and blindfolded, and led up to the third floor coin room where the thieves ransacked the premises for the coins...
...Ecuador, armed troops last August broke up an international meeting on human rights that had been organized by the Bishop of Riobamba. Herding the visiting clergy to army headquarters at gunpoint, the police expelled 15 bishops (four of them from the U.S.) and 22 priests from nine other nations for inciting "subversion...
...also claimed that taking the four vans and cars was more like joy riding than stealing, and that the two owners had been taken along without intent to kidnap. This last argument, especially, was fairly flimsy stuff, since one of the car owners testified that he was held at gunpoint. At week's end, while the jury was still out, Judge Brandler began hearings that the defense hopes will lead to a mistrial or a reversal on appeal. The issue: that before the trial began one member of the jury had declared the Harrises obviously were guilty...
...really? In various crimes of violence in Washington since 1974, one of N.R.A.'s lobbyists was shot to death, another employee was shot and wounded, and others have been robbed at gunpoint. Of course, the lobbyists will have to remain in the capital to fight gun control, including a mild ban, recently approved by the House Judiciary Committee, on the manufacture and import of cheap Saturday-night specials...