Word: gunshots
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...tiny Swiss farm community of Cheiry, 45 miles northeast of Geneva, saw the moonless sky lit by flames over the farmhouse of Albert Giacobino, a wealthy retired farmer who had bought the place four years ago. Firemen who arrived at the scene found Giacobino dead from a gunshot wound. Tacked to a door of the farmhouse was an audiocassette with a rambling taped discourse about earth, sky and astrological alignments...
...Pentagon reported that Lance Corporal. Maurice A. Williams, 21, died of an apparently self-inflicted gunshot while aboard the U.S.S. Nashville, docked in Puerto Rico after leaving Haiti Monday. His was the second U.S. suicide in Operation Uphold Democracy, which has produced no other fatalities...
...hour period in a big-city emergency room (Chicago again), and it's probably the most realistic fictional treatment of the medical profession TV has ever presented. The pace is furious, the narrative jagged and unsettling. Cases are wheeled in and out -- a severed hand, a gunshot wound, a child who has swallowed a key -- and while some are followed to a conclusion of sorts, others disappear without a trace. Yet the episode, directed by Rod Holcomb, is not just a cinema-verite jumble. The characters are fleshed out in a few deft strokes -- one doctor (Anthony Edwards) is being...
...rate of premature death from gunshot wounds is rising faster than that of any leading killer except AIDS, a new study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says. Firearms are now wasting a million years of potential life -- measured in working years -- in America every 12 months. (Statisticians reached that figure by subtracting a person's age at death from age 65, the benchmark for retirement.) By that reckoning, the amount of years lost to guns rose 13.6 percent from 1980 to 1991. Three-fourths of that increase stemmed from murders, most in the late1980s as more teens...
Starved for good news, the Clinton Administration got a double helping last week from Robert Fiske, the Whitewater special prosecutor. Reporting on the first phase of an investigation that began in January, Fiske concluded that White House deputy counsel Vincent Foster killed himself with a gunshot to the head last July 20, as police investigators reported at the time. Fiske confirmed that Foster suffered from severe depression, but found "no evidence that matters related to Whitewater" or other Clinton land and loan controversies "played any role in his death...