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...atop its control tower manned by helmeted carabinieri. Armed Jeeps escorted aircraft along the runways of Orly outside Paris, while 850 flics and special riot troopers kept suspicious eyes on passenger traffic inside the terminal. Everywhere from Amsterdam to Athens there were gun-toting guards and behind them, plainclothes marksmen...
KEHAT SHORR, 53, was the coach of the shooting team and a Defense Ministry employee. An emigrant from Rumania, Shorr was regarded as one of Israel's finest marksmen. He left a wife and a married daughter...
Says Earle: "We had expected the stress group to do better, but after about a year it was reasonably apparent that we were wrong. The non-stressed outdid the stressed in everything. Their job knowledge was better, they were better marksmen, more adaptable, more responsible, got along better with other officers and their superiors and felt the public placed a higher value on their work. They even wore their uniforms better." A second group of 100 rookies was later similarly divided and trained, with the same results...
...Blues, beaten 6-1 by the Bruins in the best-of-seven National Hockey League series opener, outshot Boston 33-31. However, the Bruins completely dominated the action and were much better marksmen...
...line runs all through Nanking. At one school I was treated to a recital of songs by the Little Red Soldiers Mao Tse-tung Thought Team. Then there was the demonstration by the People's Militia, which practices twice a week. The marksmen-some were eight-year-old girls who were smaller than the rifles they carried -ran to the firing line shouting "Heighten our vigilance, defend the motherland!" The targets no longer carried the slogan "Defeat the U.S. aggressors and all their running dogs," but the children managed to demolish them.anyway. The platoon leader, a 30-year...