Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Americans killed in air accidents over the past decade in Southeast Asia. In the last three months of 1970, aircraft accidents were the chief cause of noncombat deaths (91), ahead of mishaps with "friendly" mines and other explosive devices (39), auto accidents (30), suicides (18) and accidental gunshot wounds (17). But the fastest-rising cause of noncombat deaths is drug abuse. In 1969, the Army did not even bother to tabulate drug deaths, they were so rare. But from October to December last year, 29 soldiers died as a direct result of overdoses...
Harmless Error. The Warren court imposed that "fundamental" right on the states in 1965. But last week, in the case of Alex Evans, the Burger court limited the right somewhat. Evans was charged as one of the murderers of three policemen who were found handcuffed together with multiple gunshot wounds in the backs of their heads. At Evans' trial, a Georgia prisoner testified that he had heard one of the murder defendants say: "If it hadn't been for that dirty son of a bitch Alex Evans, we wouldn't be in this now." The trial judge...
...Jackson State, the commission concluded, "racial animosity on the part of white police officers was a substantial contributing factor in the deaths of two black youths and the gunshot injuries of twelve more." It also placed blame for the killings on "the confidence of white officers that if they fire weapons during a black campus disturbance, they will face neither stern departmental discipline nor criminal prosecution or conviction...
Full Amnesty. The change came sooner than anyone expected. In a palace coup two weeks ago, the 60-year-old Said was overthrown by his bodyguard -undoubtedly with the connivance of his son-and sent off to exile in Britain suffering from five minor gunshot wounds...
...Battle of the Somme in which 5,000 Ulstermen died. At week's end, however, pitched battles erupted between Catholics and troops who had discovered a cache of hidden weapons off the Falls Road. One civilian was crushed under an armored car and four died of gunshot wounds; at least a score of people were wounded, including ten soldiers, as the rioters hurled rocks and homemade hand grenades and the tommies replied with clouds of tear gas and nausea...