Word: gunshot
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Died. William O. Mills, 48, first-term Republican Congressman from Maryland; apparently by self-inflicted gunshot wounds after the questionable financing of his 1971 campaign was revealed (see THE NATION...
...been a long, tortured trip back. A few months ago friends and enemies alike had all but buried him politically. After repeated surgery for the complications caused by the gunshot wounds, Wallace underwent still another operation in January for the removal of his prostate. It left him more depressed than ever. Avoiding people and politics, he showed interest only in reading the diary of his would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer. Once, by accident, he watched a replay of the shooting on television. It had a "traumatic" effect on him, say friends...
...assessments. In any case, while the crime rate may be slightly down, it is still cruelly high. One measure of just how cruel it is showed up last week in a more limited survey taken by the Associated Press. In one week this March, the A.P. counted 350 U.S. gunshot fatalities. In previous surveys, three separate weeks in 1968 and 1969 had averaged about 200 such deaths each week-suggesting a 70% rise over four years. Perhaps, it was just a bad week...
Thus far the only suspected police link that has surfaced is Narcotics Detective Joseph Nunziata, whose signature-probably forged-was on the form with which 24 lbs. were signed out. Nunziata died of gunshot wounds inflicted by his own revolver last March. The death was labeled a suicide, but that verdict was challenged by Nunziata's widow Anna and her attorney, John Meglio, who said: "Joe wasn't the kind of man who would commit suicide." Indeed, mob sources have been saying that Nunziata's death was a "hit," ordered by the Gambinos because they feared...
Initially, at least, authorities could not even determine whether the two men died of gunshot wounds or shrapnel from tear-gas canisters. Some 200 lawmen, including state policemen and Sheriff Al Amiss' deputies, had set up a U-shaped cordon in front of the administration building that about 200 students had occupied. The officers were armed with both shotguns and tear-gas canisters; but television film suggested that it was the students who tossed the first tear-gas bombs. Both Amiss and the state police claim that their men fired no shots, only tear gas, while students insisted that...