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...street fighter from the grimy English mill city of Leeds. A specialist in coping with sticky situations, Peters was called upon to break the Simbas' front line at Baraka, the toughest battle the mercenaries ever fought. Peters stood up, gripped his officers' baton (he never draws his pistol in battle), and led an attack that broke the Simbas' line in 20 minutes...
...Creek. They talked with wonder about John Bade, a 22-year-old sergeant from Toledo, who was leaning half-conscious against a tree with three bullets in him when a Red officer walked up, raised his pistol and shot Eade through the eye. The bullet lodged in the back of his skull but didn't kill him, and Eade was back in the States for Thanksgiving. They talked with humor about Lieut. Bill Shiebert of Albany, N.Y., who wants to become a Catholic priest when he gets out of the Army next year. During a sharp fire fight, Shiebert...
...downtown Santo Domingo. By night, political terrorists patrol the streets in speeding cars, blasting away with machine guns and hurling hand grenades at their enemies. Last week García-Godoy was even considering bribery to encourage Dominicans to turn in their weapons-up to $80 for a pistol, $55 for a rifle, $250 for a machine...
...luscious Hungarian named Paula de Somogyi. They ran off together and spent several idyllic weeks in a rose-covered cottage on an Alp. The idyl ended when a jealous admirer provoked a quarrel. Conrad challenged him to a duel, but then chivalrously fired at the fellow's pistol hand. His opponent, who was Francis Scott Key's grandson but obviously no gentleman, calmly transferred the pistol to his other hand and shot Conrad through the chest. For days Conrad lay near death, but Paula, who never left his side, pulled him through. In the end, reality blighted romance...
After his pistol charged with birdshot failed to stop he attackers, Norton ran six miles through the jungle in bare feet to obtain help. The natives had intended to kill, and they only abandoned their attack because they thought the Paynters were dead...