Word: heard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sitting alone in a perimeter observation tower in Viet Nam when I heard of the tragic and violent death of Senator Robert F. Kennedy [June 14]. How and why can death be so prevalent in an advanced civilization such as ours? At that moment, my attention became fixed on the M-60 machine gun which rested, black and suddenly very ugly, in front of me. I wondered when I would have to kill or be killed...
...Chicago last year, 1,293 youths, one only eight years old, were arrested with guns in their possession. Last week in Oklahoma, two brothers, 12 and 10, were charged with shooting a 49-year-old grocer to death. Startling accidents happen, especially around inexperienced gun handlers. A Detroit man heard footsteps in his home, saw the knob of his bedroom door open slowly, leveled his bedside pistol?and fatally drilled his three-year-old daughter through the head. In Gunnison, Colo., Robert Delaney was riding along a dirt road on a motorbike when a shot rang out. His 15-year...
...things are changing. In the past, Congressmen were swamped with mail from self-styled "gun nuts" whenever even the most limited controls were proposed. Now the rest of the nation has been making itself heard...
...week also produced a mixed bag of claims from people who said they had some special knowledge of the sullen defendant. A former Castro commandant, José Duarte of Miami, said he had scuffled with Sirhan a month ago in Los Angeles when he heard Sirhan tell a group of leftists: "What the U.S. needs is another Castro." In London, Journalist Jon Kimche, who is known mainly for his sensational anti-Arab diatribes, wrote in the Evening Standard that Sirhan had returned to the Middle East twice, in 1964 and 1966. The story was flatly denied...
...York City, Police Officer Samuel Lasky heard a noise at his door, then spotted two strange men tiptoeing in the hall outside his apartment. Alerted by their behavior, he grabbed his gun and stepped out. The two fled, and Lasky followed, finally collaring one on the stairs. A frisk turned up burglar tools, possession of which is a crime in New York. Because the court was satisfied that Officer Lasky had acted properly, the conviction that resulted was upheld. In fact, six of the Justices thought that the defendant's actions were suspicious enough to give probable cause...