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...ground-floor apartment but caused relatively little damage to Timor's quarters. Nobody inside the building was injured. The dynamiter himself was flung to the ground, however, and the getaway car was wrecked. The other three guerrillas left their comrade behind and commandeered another vehicle at gunpoint. They got only 50 yards before they rounded a curve and crashed head-on into a police car looking for the traffic violators. They surrendered, and the injured dynamiter was arrested later at a hotel where the entire group had been staying...
...Harvard professor was robbed at gunpoint last week in front of Kirkland House. The robbery was the 44th "major crime" at Harvard to be reported to the University Police since January...
...make matters worse, the colonels seemed determined to turn Ghana into one big boot camp by "drilling" people-forcing them to run and roll on the ground at gunpoint-for the slightest offense. A number of civil servants have found themselves drilled for reporting late to work, and one customs inspector at Accra airport suffered the same punishment for daring to check a Cabinet Minister's baggage...
...occurred recently, including the 1970 murder of the West German ambassador, Count Karl von Spreti, by Guatemalan guerrillas. Over the past five years, eight U.S. diplomats and embassy officials have been involved in kidnaping incidents. In January, Ambassador to Haiti Clinton Knox and Consul Ward Christensen were seized at gunpoint and released only after the Haitian government paid a ransom of $70,000 and freed twelve political prisoners...
...least 38 neighbors. In 1968, while out of prison briefly for minor surgery in a Buffalo hospital, Moseley escaped from his guards and hid in a vacant house Neighbors telephoned Mr. and Mrs Matthew Kulaga, relatives of the owner, who came to investigate. Moseley captured the couple at gunpoint, raped Mrs. Kulaga and beat up her husband. Moseley was subsequently recaptured. The Kulagas sued-not Moseley, who hardly has assets to pay damages- but the state. Moseley's escape, they charged, was the result of negligence. A lower court was unimpressed, but the New York State Court of Appeals...