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...knows better. "You don't beat it," he says evenly. "You don't beat this river." Next day, the river separates the men for a time. Ed and Bobby go ashore and are set upon by two mountaineers. Ed is tied to a tree, Bobby sodomized at gunpoint. They are only saved from further humiliation by the arrival of Lewis, who kills one of the mountain men with a bow and arrow while the other runs...
June 24: Martin McNally, 28, an unemployed veteran, demanded $502,200 at gunpoint on an American Airlines flight over Tulsa, Okla. He got the ransom money in St. Louis, as well as a fresh plane and pilot, and set off for Toronto. He parachuted to safety in an Indiana field, but lost the ransom, which was found by a farmer. Police arrested McNally at his Michigan home...
Last week there was a new bizarre twist: one of four policemen being questioned by his own department, Sergeant Stanley Robinson, 36, disappeared. An anonymous caller told police that a man fitting Robinson's description was kidnaped at gunpoint in the area where most of the murders were supposed to have taken place. There is some speculation that he may have staged the kidnaping to throw police and federal investigators off his trail...
...rumor is correct, the archives will pretty well destroy the Australian notion that the nation's World War II soldiers were a breed of bronzed supermen. During the retreat from Singapore, 300 Aussie soldiers are said to have pushed aside women and children at gunpoint in order to get aboard the liner Empire Star. During the 1942 Japanese bombing of Darwin, soldiers panicked and fled the city ahead of civilians; one air-force deserter was found 300 miles away...
Frazier waited for the householders to arrive. First came Mrs. Ohta, whom he captured at gunpoint and tied with scarves. Frazier first assured her that he would not rape her, then berated her for ruining the environment in order to maintain her materialistic lifestyle. Soon the doctor's secretary arrived with one of the Ohta children. They were taken prisoner. Then Ohta appeared with his other son, and they too were quickly captured...