Word: guns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...thinking does not stop when the gun goes off. It is a never-ending process...
...semiautomatic hand-gun purchased for $40 in Dallas commands $150 on the street in New York City. With such profits at stake, it is no wonder that Texas, already a major corridor for narcotics from Central America, is turning into a principal source of guns for drug gangs around the U.S. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms figures that Texas trails only Florida as a black-market weapons supplier. Lax firearms laws require no waiting period or investigation of a buyer; gun smugglers send ordinary-looking shoppers, often women, from gun shop to gun shop, acquiring a weapon...
...Ouvea, New Caledonia, was broken by the dull thud of smoke bombs and the crackle of small-arms fire. Some 300 elite French troops and gendarmes had launched an operation to rescue 23 Frenchmen from a cave where they had been held by Melanesian separatists. In the 7 1/2-hour gun battle that ensued, two gendarmes and 19 militants died...
...Crimson (11-2) has to do is win three games in a row, a feat it has accomplished several times this year. And Harvard has the guns to do it, including bazooka Kate Felsen and machine gun Char Joslin...
...closed. Minutes after receiving the good news, the prisoners gathered downstairs to bid the American farewell. "Goodbye to Canto Grande," they sang in Quechua, exchanging the traditional Andean lyrics for revolutionary rhetoric. "I am going to fight for justice . . . for the peasants and the poor, armed with a gun and a flag . . . I will fight the fascists...