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...southwest of Paris. The businessman was just steps from his town house in Paris' Montparnasse district last Monday night when two women emerged from the shadows. "It's good, let's go!" one of them shouted. As horrified | passersby looked on, she fired three shots from a 9-mm pistol at Besse. "Get lost," barked the second woman, waving a gun at a stunned witness. "You haven't seen a thing." Then, as the Renault chief lay sprawled on the sidewalk, fatally wounded in the head, chest and shoulder, the assailants fled...
...months. The bank estimates that the weapons are worth the equivalent of 10% annual interest over ten years. The idea has been so successful that the bank is now expanding its selection of firepower to include a $1,245 two-piece set of Smith & Wesson handguns: a 9-mm pistol and a .45-cal. automatic. (Gun registration forms must be filled...
Sympathy for crime victims who fight back -- even when they have clearly violated the law -- is common. Two weeks ago, a jury considering charges under the much publicized handgun ban in Oak Park, Ill., acquitted a frequently robbed gas-station owner who used a pistol to shoot at armed thieves as they fled. Earlier this year a New York City judge dismissed weapon-possession charges against a subway token clerk who had killed a mugger with an unlicensed...
GUNMAN FIRED TWO MORE SHOTS FROM A HOMEMADE PISTOL, SECURITY FORCES awoke to the threat. They grabbed a green-clad man who, from the evidence of a tube of toothpaste and a water jug found nearby, had spent the night hiding in the gardens. The Prime Minister and his wife were rushed into a car and driven to safety...
John Garang is seated in a dry riverbed, under the sweeping branches of an acacia tree. Around his belt, the tall (6 ft. 4 in.), American-educated leader of the rebel Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA) wears a knife and a 9-mm automatic pistol; his thick hands are clasped around the stock and barrel of a Hungarian-made AKM assault rifle, private serial number 000. Suddenly, the stillness is broken by the shouts of 1,000 of Garang's guerrillas passing on their way to battle at nearby Kapoeta, a southern Sudanese town 140 miles east...