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...youths arrested for October's Weeks Bridge mugging draw four-to-six-year prison terms. Ralph Cahaly is robbed at gunpoint. Four men yell "You fugitive from a barber shop!" and beat up a Winthrop House sophomore. Twenty-five undergraduates march in Boston's St. Patrick's Day parade and only one is punched in the mouth...
...sovereign immunity. The State Department assented, and the attachment was thrown out. (Backing up the doctrine was an informal agreement between the U.S. and Cuba to return "hijacked" property; the day before the defection, Castro's officials had returned an Eastern Airlines Electra that had been hijacked at gunpoint from Miami...
...Gunpoint Cosigner. Guzmán admits that Villa's habits were brutal: he shot one man for pushing his horse, ordered another executed because "I saw in his glance that he waa a traitor," once lined up 60 enemy prisoners in rows of three "to save ammunition by killing three with one shot." To show his disgust for the dandified "chocolate drinkers" who, he feared, were taking over the revolution, he ordered a prisoner shot in front of his luncheon guests. Villa's only interest, according to Guzman, was to preserve the revolution for the poor-with whom...
...more adamant in his own views of how the new government should be shaped, more and more convinced that those who disagreed with him were enemies trying to usurp the revolution. He once flew into a rage at the powerful General Alvaro Obregón, ordered him at gunpoint to cosign a rebellious telegram, then had to retire for more than an hour to restrain himself from shooting Obregon...
...Perkins Hall room for a few minutes Monday night; when he returned, he reportedly discovered a man waiting behind the door. The intruder was holding a revolver and carried a knife in his belt. He commanded Resnick to sit down, handed him a small bottle, and ordered him at gunpoint to swallow the pills inside...