Word: manhunts
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...fury was directed at David Berkowitz, 24, a U.S. mail sorter, who was captured by police and identified as the lone gunman who had terrified much of New York in a yearlong series of eight nighttime attacks in quiet residential neighborhoods. But as the city's most massive manhunt ended, the killer of six young people (seven others survived their wounds) did not fulfill public expectations of the type of man who would automatically arouse suspicion, fear and hate...
...bring Murtala to power in an earlier, successful coup last July. Bisalla and many of the others were apparently implicated in the plot by Lieut. Colonel B.S. Dimka, the man who led the Feb. 13 overthrow attempt. Dimka managed to stay at large for three weeks, despite a nationwide manhunt, but he was captured at a roadblock in eastern Nigeria earlier this month...
...into the main plot. Action thrillers need not be as sophisticated or insightful as psychological thrillers, but they must be tightly structured to keep us in suspense about the outcome of the primary plot. The extraneous sequences on the killer from the past break the tension of the main manhunt. As a result, we lose most of our interest in the denouement...
...case. With hundreds of agents joining squads of state and local policemen already working on the mystery, the hunt for clues turned up a new rogues' gallery of underworld figures who were said to have had an interest in getting Hoffa out of the way. Conducting its own manhunt, the Hoffa family went so far as to ask Mickey Cohen, the former Los Angeles mobster, to make some inquiries among his old contacts. "I hope to God it's different," Cohen said, "but it looks bad right...
Lorenz's call to his wife triggered a vast manhunt. Within minutes, police roadblocks sealed off the southwest section of the city, in which Wilmersdorf park is located. Special flying squadrons raided known leftist hangouts-cafés, clubhouses and homes; doors were smashed in, safes and filing cabinets broken open...