Word: gunshot
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...murder was only the latest attempt to silence Vietnamese journalists. In 1980 the house of Tien Phong's publisher, Nguyen Tranh Huang, was fire bombed. Last year the magazine's layout artist, Nhan Trong Do, was found dead of gunshot wounds in his car in Virginia. Since 1981, three other journalists who put out Vietnamese publications have been killed, two in California and one in Texas...
Three times I saw the frustration on the head nurse's face when she checked the work sheet and saw that too few nurses and health assistants were assigned for Saturday night--the shift when four gunshot wounds and two stabbings is par for the course...
...little piece of New York City died with him. Rayvon was the fourth child to be killed by a stray gunshot in less than nine days and the second to perish within the safety of his own home. By the time he was buried last week, yet another child had been fatally shot and three more wounded. The slain children are called mushrooms in street lingo -- as vulnerable as plants underfoot. Their deaths have pushed New Yorkers, already reeling from a daunting inventory of urban ills, to a new depth of despair. "The job of taking back our streets requires...
...capita basis, it is higher than that of Belfast or Burma. The U.S. Army has begun sending doctors to train in the emergency room of Martin Luther King Jr. General Hospital in Watts, because there they can get 24-hour-a-day experience treating the kind of gunshot wounds normally seen only in battle...
...transformation of urban neighborhoods into war zones has turned many hospitals into combat units. "Intentional penetrating injuries" -- which is to say, gunshot and stab wounds -- used to be rare outside the worst inner- city areas. Now every hospital sees them. At the Washington Hospital Center, the number of violent injuries has jumped 94% since 1987, totaling 681 cases last year. Gunshot wounds were up 150%. Today roughly half of those with serious traumatic injuries in Los Angeles have been cut, stabbed or shot...