Word: jeeps
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Woodruff, ostensibly a regional-affairs officer assigned to the new Tbilisi embassy but actually the CIA's acting station chief, spent Sunday afternoon on a sight-seeing trip to the village of Kasbegi. He was riding home in a white, four-wheel-drive Niva jeep driven by Eldar Gogoladze, who heads the security unit in charge of protecting top Georgian officials, when suddenly, sometime after 9:30 p.m., a single bullet pierced the brain of the 45-year-old American. Gogoladze was unharmed...
Detroit pretty much invented carjacking, so its police force has had the most practice in fighting it. They've spent the past three months trying to find the killer of Mark Rayner, a 255-lb. National Golden Gloves heavyweight champ, who was carjacked for his new white Jeep Grand Cherokee when he stopped at a phone booth on his way home from a movie. When he tried to escape by driving off, the thugs opened fire. At least five bullets hit the side of his Jeep; two hit Rayner in the back, killing him instantly...
...Bonnie didn't realize that her son was involved with guns until last summer. In June, after Jeff and some friends were shot at in a drive-by, they jumped into a Jeep and went looking for the assailant's car. When they found the car parked in front of a rival's house, Jeff's friend jumped out and pounded on it with a wooden club. But just as they were about to leave, someone crept up and fired a shotgun blast through the back of their Jeep. Jeff ducked, and his friend was hit in the back...
This summer, on the streets of big cities, high schoolers will be engaging in their usual vehicular mating ritual. Guys in long baggy shorts leaning against their Jeeps; girls strolling by in laughing pairs or trios; the pumping music on the Jeep stereos expressing everything that's unsaid. And what will be playing? Bell Biv DeVoe. Dr. Dre. And this album. Conscious of history, the Tonyies have made themselves a band of the here...
...photographer Greg Smith at home in Houston, asking him to return to Waco at once. Because the media were kept three miles from the scene, Smith found himself covering a story he could barely see with high-powered telephoto lenses. Katz, who had put 6,500 miles on his Jeep Cherokee as he roared about questioning residents and checking out the countryside, says he had never covered a story "so intense and frustrating." Nothing, however, could prepare the photographers for what they saw when the story finally broke. "It was total shock," says Katz. "We kept looking for people...