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...Israeli War of Independence, Gazit served as chief intelligence officer for a brigade and then commanded his own company. But a serious gunshot wound he received while fighting in Jerusalem ended his military career and resulted in the loss of a lung. The injury, he says, "gave me further impetus to go on in government...
...flaunt the trappings of affluence; many drive around in Mercedes. Yet for such youths, there is trouble in paradise. Among local therapists, the area is known as "the suicide belt." In a 17-month period ending last summer, 28 teen-agers took their own lives. Eighteen died by gunshot, eight by hanging and two by lying down in front of trains...
...watched TV and, with a nurse's assistance, even stood briefly. Vernon Jordan, president of the National Urban League, was making a slow but steady recovery from gunshot wounds that felled him in the parking lot of the Marriott Inn in Fort Wayne, Ind. But the police and FBI were making little progress last week in tracking down the would-be killer of the civil rights leader...
...chest. During the operation the doctors removed three small fragments of the first bullet and the damaged section of Jordan's intestine; the pieces of the second bullet were not removed, because they were not threatening his life. Said Surgeon Jeff Towles, who has had extensive experience with gunshot wounds: "There was an explosive effect like nothing I've ever seen before." He said that Jordan would have been killed if the angle of the first shot had been a centimeter different from its actual path. After surgery Jordan was listed in serious but stable condition...
...council also refused to approve a more limited hiring freeze that would have applied only to departments with 50 or more employees. "That would be a gunshot way of making cuts. Across-the-board cuts indicate that those who propose them have not done their homework," Councilor Thomas W. Danehy said last night...