Word: gunshot
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DIED. Aldo Moro, 61, leader of Italy's Christian Democratic Party and the man who was most likely to become the country's next President; of gunshot wounds inflicted by terrorists (see WORLD...
DIED. Terry Kath, 31, self-taught composer and guitarist for the slick rock-jazz band Chicago; of an accidental, self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Los Angeles. Kath, a native Chicagoan who helped form the popular band eleven years ago, had been drinking with friends when he put what he believed was an unloaded gun to his head and pulled the trigger...
...monkeys were shot through the head for a study of gunshot wounds. > Monkeys were operated on without anesthesia so doctors could study shock...
DIED. William C. Sullivan, 65, former No. 3 man at the FBI who became an outspoken critic of Director J. Edgar Hoover; of a gunshot wound received while deer hunting near his home in Sugar Hill, N.H. As head of the domestic intelligence division for a decade, Sullivan was involved in many abuses including "black bag" operating and illegal wiretapping of National Security Council phones that were later revealed by the Senate Intelligence Committee. Though long a loyal lieutenant of Hoover's in his obsessive war against Communism, Sullivan later criticized Hoover's extremist views and retired...
DIED. Clifford Roberts, 84, co-founder and president of the Augusta National Golf Club and for 43 years chairman of its prestigious Masters Tournaments; by his own hand (gunshot); in Augusta, Ga. A New York City investment banker and ardent amateur golfer, Roberts teamed up with Grand Slam Champion Bobby Jones to help launch the latter's "ideal" golf club in 1930. While its Masters Tournaments became well-attended sports classics, the austere, irascible Roberts kept Augusta National an exclusive golfing sanctuary for its 200-plus members. Among them...