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Word: pistoleer (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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When he was seized, Berkowitz was carrying a manila envelope; in it was the .44-cal. pistol that had been used in all of the Son of Sam murders. He also had a semiautomatic rifle, simulated to look like a submachine...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: Sam Told Me To Do It... Sam Is the Devil | 8/22/1977 | See Source »

...with a parquet dance floor, pool tables and pinball machines, accuses the police of hassling him. "On Friday and Saturday the cops come in here and take out all the women and jack them up against the wall for prostitution," says Leon, who packs a .25-cal. automatic pistol. He claims police sit out front and "tell customers not to come in here." Alcoholic Beverage Control agents have filed an "accusation" against The Tourist Trap, listing 39 offenses, a first step in getting its liquor license withdrawn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AMERICAN SCENE: Cleaning Up the Act in Hollywood | 8/15/1977 | See Source »

...agency. He loaded the container onto a flatbed tractor-trailer truck for delivery to a Bank of France side entrance. Shortly after leaving the station, Trottin found himself cut off by a disabled truck and got out to give a hand. Minutes later the two were surrounded by four pistol-carrying men and ordered into a nearby Peugeot sedan. One gunman took the wheel of Trottin's rig; the other three followed in the Peugeot with the two hostages. Trottin and the other trucker, neither of whom is a police suspect, were released 15 minutes later on Paris...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Francs a Lot | 8/8/1977 | See Source »

Chicago. Johnny, 16, who had a long record of arrests for disorderly conduct, simple battery and aggravated assault, lured a motorist into an alley. He drew a .22-cal. pistol and shot the driver six times, killing him. Johnny was arrested yet again, but he was released because witnesses failed to show up in court. Today he is free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE YOUTH CRIME PLAGUE | 7/11/1977 | See Source »

...case against Park or his friends in Congress. Republicans have complained-with some justification-that Democrats are far less eager to look into Koreagate, which chiefly involves Democrats, than they were to pursue Republicans implicated in Watergate. Still, as a House ethics committee staffer explains, "there is no smoking pistol." For one thing, although investigators have called more than 70 witnesses before a grand jury, they have not been able to establish whether Park was a South Korean agent; if he was, he broke U.S. law by not registering with the Justice Department, and the Congressmen may have broken...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: The Swindler From Seoul | 7/4/1977 | See Source »

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