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...convicted of that crime, the F.A.R.L. in Lebanon captured a hostage, Gilles Peyroles, director of the French Cultural Center. The French reportedly entered into secret negotiations to swap Abdallah for Peyroles. Then, just a day after Peyroles was released, police found in an apartment Abdallah had rented the pistol that killed Ray and Barsimantov...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: France: A Paris Court Stands Firm | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...Maryland, he was a cheater. It seems Meissner's errant drives had a way of reappearing in-bounds. On those murky grounds, his first application to the P.G.A. was rejected. Here is the pertinent point: when he later faced the bar of justice, Meissner readily admitted poking his pistol in the nose of all those tellers, but he bitterly denied ever cheating at golf...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Par Cut Off at the Knees | 3/9/1987 | See Source »

...first victim was Rudolf Cordes, a West German businessman, who was pulled out of his cab in the West Beirut slum of Ouzai by two carloads of pistol-wielding terrorists. Three days later, Alfred Schmidt, an engineer for Siemens, the giant West German electronics firm, was rousted from bed in his hotel room at gunpoint. He was led away wearing only his pajamas and a leather jacket. On Friday, two more men were kidnaped in downtown West Beirut. Police later said they were Lebanese Armenians, not West Germans as claimed earlier by the kidnapers. Finally, on Saturday night, a well...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: A Frenzy of Hostage Taking | 2/2/1987 | See Source »

Half an hour later Auque and Marchand were approached by gunmen. One grabbed Auque, struck him on the head with a pistol butt and forced him into a waiting car. Marchand escaped from a terrorist who jammed a Kalashnikov automatic rifle into his stomach and shouted, "I want to kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Lebanon: Another Day, A New Hostage | 1/26/1987 | See Source »

...minutes before the expected adjournment of last week's city council meeting in Mount Pleasant, Iowa (pop. 7,300), a man in a parka and camouflage hunting cap approached the horseshoe-shaped meeting table. Whipping out a pistol, he shot one councilman in the head. As city officials ducked for cover, he fired eight more shots. When police arrived they found Mayor Edward King, 53, dead and two council members gravely injured. The gunman, Ralph Orin Davis, 69, had been angry with the city over a backed-up sewer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Revenge: The Killing Season | 12/22/1986 | See Source »

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