Word: gunshots
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Died. Count Carl Gustaf von Rosen, 67, swashbuckling, humanitarian Swedish aristocrat; of gunshot wounds suffered during a surprise guerrilla attack; in Gode, Ethiopia. Von Rosen's daredevil "mercy" missions, which eventually spanned four decades and four wars, first brought him hero status during the 1936 Italian invasion of Ethiopia. The count once declared: "I was born in a castle, the son of a millionaire, and they tried to bring me up as a noble gentleman. But I was always naughty, always in trouble...
Through much of the early taping, which went far better for Nixon than he could have expected, he was relaxed and affable. When a television light explodes loudly over Frost's head, the interviewer is startled. Frost thinks it could have been a gunshot. Nixon laughs. "With all these Secret Service men around, don't worry about it," he assures Frost. "One of these days I'll give you a lecture on security." After two hours of one session, Frost suggests that Nixon might want a break. Nixon looks at the technicians, and jokes: "Those guys look pretty well...
...ambitious men are silly and the steady ones are inconsequential. Meggie's eight brothers either die or disappear into the woodwork. Women seem to live forever, while every hundred pages or so another man is burned alive or disemboweled by a wild boar or drowned or unsexed by gunshot wounds. None of this carnage is required by the plot. The males are punished because their punishment is what romantic fiction requires...
Died. Carlos Prio Socarrás, 74, the last constitutionally elected President of Cuba (1948-52); of a self-inflicted gunshot wound; in Miami Beach. Prio Socarrás, who pridefully described himself as "a cordial President," was overthrown by General Fulgencio Batista and charged with corruption. To oust Batista, Prio Socarrás helped finance Fidel Castro's 1959 takeover, but later broke with him, attacking his "Communist tyranny." A leader of Miami's Cuban exiles, he met with Secretary of State Cyrus Vance in February to voice opposition to U.S. détente with Cuba...
...trial was followed by a quick sentencing-and Claudine Longet, convicted of criminally negligent homicide in the gunshot death of her lover, Ski Champ Vladimir ("Spider") Sabich, was condemned to 30 days in the county jail. Although Longet pleaded with Judge George E. Lohr not to separate her from her three "very gentle and open" children, Lohr did not relent. To impose no jail sentence, he said, might "unduly depreciate the seriousness of the offense or undermine respect for the law." Longet chose not to appeal her conviction, but she told a phalanx of reporters that she had been unfortunate...