Word: hunting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...commitment of human and civil solidarity." Tacked to a tree near by was a lurid, half-torn Sunday magazine cover showing the bloodied, sheet-covered body of one of the victims. Those scenes of tribute were enacted last week as Rome was virtually turned inside out in the hunt for Moro and the Red Brigades terrorists who had abducted him. Rome Bureau Chief Jordan Bonfante reports...
...country almost inured to brazen violence, the abduction of so lofty a public official sent Italy reeling in shock. The government quickly launched the biggest man hunt in postwar history. Thousands of police, joined by 30,000 Italian troops, threw a cordon around the capital. Roadblocks were set up on all highways out of Rome. Homes and apartments of suspected radicals were searched, countless youths stopped and quizzed...
...industrial pallor of Dover's office walls suggests a place where parking tickets are paid, and the low clatter of sorting machines is more reminiscent of post office than publisher. But within those corridors the search for new volumes is as lively and noisy as a fox hunt. Some 200 employees are engaged in the tracing of new sources, designing covers and books, filling mail orders and printing. Of the 200, Blanche and Hayward remain the most relentless in pursuit of their quarry. When their son and daughter were grown, the Cirkers, now grandparents, moved from Long Island...
...colonel grabbed their weapons (it is not unusual for Israelis to carry weapons) and helped capture two of the terrorists. By that time, heavily armed Israeli troops had moved into the region in force. Police clamped a curfew on northern Tel Aviv and launched an intensive man hunt for three commandos who were still missing...
...doubles action, Navratilova and Billie Jean King downed Lesley Hunt and Julie Anthony, 6-4, 6-3, in a match that was nowhere near as close as the score indicates...