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...base. He had a drink with a dark-haired woman dressed in blue jeans, who appeared to be with a tall mustachioed man she called Jeff. Pimental left with the couple. Next morning he was found dead, shot in the back of the neck with a large-caliber gun. Minutes after his body was found, a terrorist car bomb exploded inside the U.S. Rhein-Main Air Base some 20 miles away, killing two people, both Americans, and injuring...
...shoots a hotel night clerk: "Now judge I got debts no honest man could pay/ The bank was holdin' my mortgage and they/ was takin' my house away/ Now I ain't sayin' that makes me an innocent man/ But it was more 'n all this that put the gun in/ my hand...
...Reagan went on. It was then that he invited the Kremlin leader to come to the U.S. "And I invite you to come to the Soviet Union," responded Gorbachev. "I accept," stated Reagan. "I accept," echoed Gorbachev. The gloom lifted. At Gorbachev's limousine (inside of which a submachine gun rested on the rear seat), the two men parted company...
Many Colombians, who saw one heartrending human tragedy after another on television, were less generous. Some drew parallels between the government response to the volcano and the Nov. 7 crisis at Bogotá's Palace of Justice, where 100 people, including eleven Supreme Court justices, died during a furious gun battle between troops and M-19 guerrillas. "The army lost no time in blowing up the Justice Palace," says a Bogotá lawyer bitterly, "but they couldn't get a water pump to Armero to save the life of a little girl." Indeed, 13-year-old Omaira Sanchez had become a national...
...Controversial Death The armed forces of the Philippines welcome the candid reporting in Anthony Spaeth's "Under the Gun" [May 9]. However, we are troubled by Mr. Spaeth's unfair use of the memory of the late Lieut. Colonel Dennis Villaneuva, a fine gentleman-officer. The article quips that Villaneuva's death is a "mystery worth pursuing," and asks, "Was Dennis Villaneuva a casualty of his employer's shoddiness?" Zeroing in on the facts, the cause of death was a heart attack secondary to massive organ malfunction due to severe loss of blood and/or bodily fluids. He died after...