Word: gunshots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...shooting was another in the killing blitz that has hit Chicago in the past few weeks. The same weekend seven people were killed by gunshot, and another 41 were wounded in nonfatal shootings. The previous weekend's death toll was 26, marking it as one of the bloodiest periods in the city's history since the St. Valentine's Day Massacre...
...night of August 15, two North Cambridge youths, one black and one white, died from gunshot wounds sustained in a neighborhood scuffle. Police arrested and charged a black resident, J. Hugh Price, with murder and manslaughter in the two deaths, but did not file charges against any other persons involved in the melee...
...about the timing of el Caudillo's death. Although he was known to suffer from Parkinson's disease, so far as Spanish officialdom was concerned, the only times he had ever been indisposed were when he had a couple of teeth extracted and when he suffered a gunshot wound in the hand while hunting. Last week the government rushed out photographs showing the diminutive (5 ft. 3 in.) and frail general walking into the hospital without assistance, and doctors said his condition was not serious...
Died. Jaime Torres Bodet, 72, Mexican author, educator, diplomat and statesman; by his own hand (gunshot); in Mexico City. Quintessentially the intellectual-in-politics-he published almost twoscore books-Torres Bodet held that illiteracy was a sinister enemy of democracy and international peace. After becoming Minister of Education in 1943, he launched a mammoth literacy campaign that in its first two years taught more than a million Mexicans to read and write. Named head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in 1948, he resigned four years later, arguing that a budget cut imperiled the agency...
...never did find a place above the salt at the Mafia's endless family banquet. His alternate gambit, as a kind of self-taught existential hero on Manhattan's celebrity circuit, did not amount to much either. And of course he ended up dead of assorted, uncredited gunshot wounds in a clam bar in Little Italy a couple of years back...