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Four people were shot to death and one seriously wounded during a holdup at a post office in the quiet suburban community of Montclair, New Jersey. Acting on a tip, police arrested Christopher Green, a former postal co-worker, who the authorities said quickly confessed to the killings, saying he robbed the facility to pay off debts, including his rent...
...retrieve a briefcase from some cheating kids. Three people die there, and a fourth in a getaway car. A specialist (Keitel) drops by to supervise the cleanup. At a diner, the henchmen's breakfast is interrupted by a thrill-crazy young couple (Tim Roth and Amanda Plummer) staging a holdup. He and Vincent go to see Marsellus, who is telling an aging boxer named Butch (Willis) to throw his next fight. Later, Vincent buys some potent heroin, then escorts the boss' sexy wife Mia (Thurman) for a toxic night on the town. Vincent gets out the needle. Butch double-crosses...
...same time, Washington hopes that its offer to deliver supplies to Serbian and Croat enclaves as well will convince those factions that the U.S. will be an honest broker in the negotiations. At a minimum, the Serbs might be persuaded that the holdup of truck convoys to starve out the Muslims is now futile. But the airlift might just as easily give the Serbs an additional excuse to halt ground deliveries...
Russ's problems, as it turned out, were only beginning. As some House members called for his dismissal, Russ reported last week that he had been the victim of a bizarre holdup and shooting. He claimed to have been walking his sheep dog near the Capitol one night when he was accosted by two men. Russ claimed that one of the men put a gun into his mouth while the other took his wallet and Rolex watch. The gunman pulled the trigger but the bullet only ripped through his left cheek. As he recuperated at home last week, Russ called...
...unrelated incident, the Lechmere Square branch of Bay Banks was robbed yesterday afternoon. A white man entered the bank at 12:01 p.m. and passed a note to a teller indicating a holdup, Cambridge City police said. No weapon was seen during the theft...