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...Driving in from the airport, we were protected by a Colombian Army private with his Mauser thrust through the open window. On the way he shouted 'stop!' got out, knelt on the running board and began banging away at some snipers down Carrera Séptima. When he jumped back in the car, he said: 'I think I got one of them...
...orita Bombal herself once contemplated suicide. That was in Santiago in 1941. Instead, she ran into an old fiancé, impulsively drew from her handbag a Mauser pistol, fired four shots into him. He recovered, forgave, filed no charges...
...August they came back, went about their business as if nothing had happened. Late one night last week they prepared for an important conference in a blue-walled, chintz-curtained Hollywood apartment. Benny slipped a cocked Mauser under the bedsheets and hid a .32 in the closet. Levinson laid down a Gladstone bag containing two sawed-off shotguns. As it turned out, these arrangements proved sadly inadequate...
...students were on duty across from the small, grey Ruskin-Gothic Peruvian Embassy. They knew that it was giving asylum to ex-Mayor Juan Luis Gutierrez Granier, in whose municipality, it was said, students were tortured and killed last week. A swell-looking kid of 19 had an old Mauser rifle with a sling made of heavy twine. He had on two overcoats and a north woods peaked wool cap. How long was he going to stand there? Until Gutierrez came out. He thought there would be a try that night. It was cold as hell, but even the rifleman...
Going straight did not appeal to some of the henchmen. They renounced the blood brotherhood pledge and left the gang in discontent. Last week pasty-faced Tomiji Nodera, who, though an accountant, could not stomach the new business ethics, visited the boss, pulled a German Mauser pistol and fired three times. Matsuda slumped dead in his chair...