Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last week, however, terrorism suffered a dramatic setback. The West German government refused to bow to the demands of a pistol-armed band of two men and two women who had skyjacked a Lufthansa jet and embarked on a 110-hour odyssey of terror from Majorca to Mogadishu, Somalia. There, in a daring middle-of-the-night raid, West German commandos rescued 82 passengers and four crew members, killed three of the skyjackers and wounded the fourth (see following story...
...constantly about informers. Once, José and a colleague were asked to test the reliability of an operative who had left the movement for a while and wanted to return. The man was taken to an apartment in Jersey City, where an "informer" was being held, then handed a pistol with.a silencer. As José tells it, "The brother turned around and pulled the trigger three times against the man's head. Wow, was he surprised when it didn't work!" The gun was not loaded. The "informer" was, of course, a decoy...
...morning last week, Graziella Ortiz-Patińo 5, was sitting in the back seat of a station wagon, waiting the family chauffeur to drive her to kindergarten. As he strolled out of the servants' quarters at the villa near Geneva, two men emerged from the shrubbery and pistol-whipped him down. They forced the child into a waiting car and sped off toward the French border, two miles away...
...past few months, Mengele has been seen at the German club in Asunción. Risking discovery, Mengele sometimes drinks too much; one evening, he drunkenly pulled out a pistol and waved it about. Another time he chatted with a visiting West German professor. Each time someone entered the bar, Mengele, who wears sunglasses as a partial disguise on his Asunción excursions, would quicky put them back on. Then, after he recognized the newcomer, he would take them off. Finally, he became so annoyed with putting on and taking off his glasses that he slammed them...
...gleaned from other people's books. He longed for a niche in posterity. But in the end he earned little more than the short-lived notoriety of the suicide who murders his beautiful mistress as a prelude to suicide. And that is no more than any brute with a pistol can achieve...