Word: manhunting
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...team managed to make a clean getaway, though Paraguayan authorities believed one of the assassins may have been wounded. Paraguayan police launched a manhunt for suspected members of the People's Revolutionary Army (ERP), a leftist Argentine guerrilla group. Their presumed motive: solidarity with Nicaragua's Sandinista revolutionaries, who succeeded in overthrowing the Somoza family's ruthless 43-year dynasty last year after a bitter civil war. At week's end, one suspected ERP ringleader was killed in a shootout and 60 people had been picked up for questioning...
...track down the Ripper, nine of whose victims were prostitutes, police have mounted the biggest manhunt in British history. Since the killer claimed his eleventh victim in April, a 300-man "Ripper squad" has scoured the "triangle of terror" in West Yorkshire and Lancashire, where the murders have taken place. Using information provided by sev eral women who survived his assault, police have circulated a description of a powerfully built suspect between 30 and 45. Authorities are also trying to take advantage of the fact that British accents can be very distinctive. Experts who have analyzed the Ripper...
Despite a massive manhunt by a special 55-man task force of the Los Angeles police department, aided by Los Angeles County and Glendale cops, the case of the "hillside strangler" has produced few usable clues and no suspects. Police are not sure whether they are looking for one killer or more-and, if more than one, whether they were working together or separately...
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...manhunt over, police felt pride tinged with a few regrets, at this handling of one of their toughest challenges. Once again they had discovered that terrified witnesses rarely provide reliable descriptions. The series of sketches drawn by police artists from such fragmentary impressions turned out to be off the mark -actually hindering police work by inviting people to name suspects bearing likenesses to the errant drawings, but not to the murderer...