Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deaths and also some marriages. On Guam, an ex-G.I. named Thomas Hejl finally found and married Nguyen Thi Ut, the fiancee he had met during his tour of duty in Viet Nam several years before. Their daughter, born three years ago, was killed by a Communist gunshot as her mother carried her on a fishing boat fleeing Saigon...
Died. Faisal ibn Abdul Aziz al Saud, 69, austere absolute monarch of Saudi Arabia; of gunshot wounds inflicted by his nephew, Prince Faisal ibn Musaed; during a royal audience in the Saudi capital of Riyadh (see THE U.S. & THE WORLD...
...film as at the beginning; as Harry Lime, played by Orson Welles, is lowered into his grave for the second time you feel as if he might at any time reappear, stepping out of the shadows with a silent step more frightening than any sudden gunshot--it's more frightening when the unexpected body you discover is live. The ferris wheel in the Prater will never stop turning--Reed films it from the crazy angles that were Orson Welles' trademark; it is here that he reveals that even the pettiest racketeer has a philosophical motive--and an attractive...
Died. Baron Jean-Louis de Portal, 23; of gunshot wounds; near Montauban, France. Together with his mother and sister, Jean-Louis barricaded La Fumade, the Portal family's 30-room mansion, shortly before the death of his father Baron Leonce in 1973, and refused to relinquish it to the farmer who bought it at a debt auction. After Portal shot and wounded two workers sent by the new owner to plow the land, 70 gendarmes assaulted La Fumade, braving fire from the young baron's elephant gun and mortally wounding him. The body of the father, which...
Died. Julian Ormsby Gore, 33, son of Britain's Lord Harlech and archetypal playboy of London's swinging, kinky '60s; apparently by his own hand (gunshot); in London. Ormsby Gore, who worked as a waiter and male model, was found by his sister Alice, 22, in his silver-painted West London apartment, a .22-cal. pistol lying by his hand...