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...attempts to repress the guerrillas have turned many of that group against him. Even neutral Jordanians were repelled by the brutality of Hussein's army. In Amman, Bedouin soldiers slew wounded guerrillas, some while they lay helpless on stretchers. Others looted stores and houses and raped women at gunpoint. Onlookers insist that these were not Jordanian at all, but the Bedouin mercenaries from Syria, Iraq and Saudi Arabia who constitute a third of Hussein's army. "These foreign legionnaires didn't look on this as a police action," says former Premier Suleiman Nabulsi, 60, a non-Palestinian...
...Radcliffe student was raped at gunpoint in her dormitory last Tuesday night-the first such incident to occur in the College's history, according to Radcliffe officials...
...Suspects. With only Valeri in custody, Boston police, Massachusetts state troopers and FBI agents combed the Northeast for the remaining suspects. Bond, Saxe and Power are believed to have fled in Susan Saxe's black Volkswagen. Late last week a man identified as Gilday stole a car at gunpoint in New Hampshire and was later spotted by police near Lowell, Mass. After a high-speed chase and gun battle in which one policeman was wounded, he wrecked his car but managed to escape once more...
...touched off another of the all too familiar shoot-outs between black extremists and police. First, a meeting of the National Committee to Combat Fascism (N.C.C.F.), a Black Panther-allied organization, discovered that two members were police informants. Called "Bush" and "Legs," the two said they were grilled at gunpoint, hit with boards studded with nails and then, as one participant put it, pushed into the street to "let the people deal with them." They were attacked by a mob until one escaped over a fence and the other found sanctuary in a grocery store operated by Clarence Broussard...
...Spreti was on his way to his residence when eight young members of the Rebel Armed Forces, a revolutionary group, forced him out of his Mercedes 300 at gunpoint. The Guatemalan government rejected a rebel demand for the release of 22 Guatemalan political prisoners and $700,000 in exchange for the ambassador. The government refused to negotiate even after Bonn offered to pay the money. Five days after the kidnaping, Von Spreti was found dead, lying face down on the mud floor of an abandoned hut outside Guatemala City...