Word: gunpoint
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Cahaly's, a small grocery store on Mt. Auburn St., was robbed at gunpoint last night...
...regime last April is a prime example of news distortion. An editorial last summer in The New York Times, titled "Cambodia's Crime," summed up the official view of events there. It spoke of millions of people from Phnom Penh and other cities "forced by the Communists at gunpoint to walk into the countryside without organized provision for food, shelter, physical security, or medical care." It concluded that Cambodia "resembles a giant prison camp with the urban supporters of the former regime now being worked to death on thin gruel and hard labor...the barbarous cruelty of the Khmer Rouge...
...robbed William Alfred '38, professor of English, at gunpoint at his Cambridge home Friday evening, stealing two dollars and a cane given to him by the late philosopher Raphael Demos...
After being raped at gunpoint and watching the same thing happen to my best friend, and then doing the "right" thing by wading through two days in the uninterested, if not abusive L. A. police department and hospital, with no results, I ask along with Steinem, "What do we do with our rage...
...anew. In one day there were at least 200 kidnapings. Two of the victims were Americans: Charles Gallagher and William Dykes, the director and deputy director of the regional center of the U.S. Information Service. The first foreigners to be kidnaped during the latest troubles, they were captured at gunpoint, apparently by leftist Moslems in the territory controlled by the Nasserite Organization Corrective Movement. At week's end there had been no ransom demand or word of their fate...