Word: mausers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Paulo described him as lonely; he received visits only occasionally, from a son whom he introduced as a nephew and from a family emissary, apparently Hans Sedlmeier, the Mengele firm clerk. Pedro got no mail, kept no telephone and maintained no bank accounts. He slept with a Mauser pistol by his bedside, according to some reports; often he had difficulty getting to sleep and read or wrote deep into the night...
...soldiers, up from 6,000 last year. Operating from enclaves in Honduras and bases in northern Nicaragua, they have swept as far south as the city of Matagalpa, about 60 miles north of Managua. New F.D.N. recruits must rely on rusty, World War I-vintage Mauser bolt-action rifles, given by the CIA in 1982. Though weapons and ammunition have been in woefully short supply, the stockpile is growing again. According to high- level F.D.N. sources, the contras possess an unspecified number of surface- to-air missiles to counter the Soviet Mi-24 Hind-D helicopters that the Sandinistas received...
...sleep." The idea was that the Defense Department's new Wound Laboratory would pay about $80 for each dog. When the time came for research to proceed, the dogs would be anesthetized with pentobarbital, suspended in nylon mesh slings and shot with a 9-mm Mauser from a distance of twelve or 15 feet. The dogs would then be carried into a lab, and people studying to be military surgeons would examine the damage and learn something about gunshot wounds, which might some day save human lives on a battlefield...
...office, Eldorado becomes obsessed with his imaginary network. Derived from guidebooks and railway timetables, the false messages flow to Madrid and thence to Berlin with "authentic" reports on everything from British re search on light alloys to homosexuality in the submarine service. Luis comes closer and closer to a Mauser slug in the chest. In real life, and most fiction, he would be cheaply expendable. Here he is not, because the rise of Luis from Franco's Most Wanted list to nouveau millionaire is too good to end abruptly, not least because his life is joined by Juliet Francis...