Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Then more shots came from the direction of the embassy. Two men carried a stretcher toward an ambulance. On it was the dead body of an Iranian man, apparently an employee of the embassy; the front of his shirt was soaked with blood from a gunshot wound. All the while, Khomeini's people were trying to clear the area of journalists. "This is bad propaganda for the government," said...
...last November's carnage at the Peoples Temple commune in Jonestown, Guyana. The most dramatic moments of the four-hour hearing came from Jackie Speier, a legislative counsel who accompanied the late Congressman Leo Ryan on his fatal visit to the Rev. Jim Jones' headquarters and survived gunshot wounds. Speier stated that there are 10 million cult members in the U.S. and warned: "The most important fact about Jonestown is, it can happen again...
...objections of her parents, the young woman puts on a Greek wedding dress and marries her lover at the county courthouse. They soon move into a farmhouse on the estate. Three months later, the bride seems despondent. She is found one afternoon lying on the ground with a fatal gunshot wound in her head. A coroner rules that she has committed suicide, and she is buried in the Staunton Hill graveyard, beneath a headstone that bears the Greek words for Little Flower. Her husband moves to Hoover, Ala., works as a stockbroker, and then returns to Athens in April...
...Berkowitz returned to court to be sentenced, it was Son of Sam's turn to put in an appearance. In a packed courtroom sat Stacy Moskowitz's mother and Robert Violante, Stacy's date the night of the murder, who is partly blind from the gunshot wounds he received. While the spectators waited for 1½ hr., guards struggled to bring the killer into the courtroom; he scratched and bit them, trying to rush for a window. Finally, disheveled and handcuffed, he was pushed into the room. His face was flushed, his eyes bulging. Turning toward...
DIED. Joseph A. Colombo Sr., 54, Brooklyn Mafia chieftain who became the outspoken founder of the Italian-American Civil Rights League; as a result of gunshot wounds suffered at a 1971 league rally in Manhattan; in Newburgh, N.Y. After a lackluster youth as a petty criminal in the underworld, Colombo became an efficient member of a five-man assassination squad under one of the Mafia bosses. Assigned in 1963 by another chieftain to murder reputed Godfather Carlo Gambino and two other high-ranking bosses, Colombo decided his victims would be worth more to him than his contract and tipped them...