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...November two airmail parcels addressed to German Rocket Engineer Wolfgang Pilz blew up when opened in his office in Egypt, killing five Egyptians and disfiguring Pilz's German secretary. Then, on a road near the West German town of Lörrach. a would-be assassin fired a pistol shot at a professor engaged in electronics research for Egypt; the bullet missed and the would-be assassin escaped in a car. Biggest unsolved riddle is the whereabouts of Dr. Heinz Krug, 49, boss of a Munich firm that dealt in military hardware for Egypt. Last November, Krug vanished from...
Aboard were two Cuban diplomatic couriers on their roundabout way to La Paz via Mexico and Chile. Investigators found a batch of Cuban documents and an auto matic pistol with silencer. Another interesting discovery: both Cubans appeared to have been in the cockpit of the plane, which was 35 miles off course and 9,000 ft. too low when it crashed...
SNCC members were bound by principle not to retaliate violently. The organization has always adhered closely to the policy of non-violence, hoping that it will exert a strong enough moral force to help rapid integration. But non-violence does not work at pistol point, especially if there is no effective agency of the law to deter prospective killers. The FBI and Justice Department in Mississippi have not been effective...
Williams had two pistols and a rifles in his car. He pointed a .45 at the man with the bat, who started backing away. Some policemen, who had been watching the encounter, started to take action when they found the Negroes were armed. One grabbed Williams by the shoulder ordering him to surrender his weapon. "I struck him on the side of the face," Williams writes, "and knocked him back away from the car and put my carbine in his face and I told him we were not going to surrender to the mob. I told him that we didn...
...Korean airman (Enrique Magalona) downed in an inlet. When they radio headquarters, they receive a command worded with discretion but ice-clear in intention; shoot the prisoner. The sergeant (Kirk Douglas) brusquely orders the privates to do it. The first (Robert Walker) refuses. The second (Nick Adams) raises his pistol-but cannot pull the trigger. The sergeant explodes. A private replies: "Why not shoot him yourself, sir? And look him right in the eye." The sergeant, a small-bore sadist, raises his pistol-but he too cannot pull the trigger...