Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there is an award for maiming or killing your assailant: the Courageous Citizens Award offered by the Federation of Greater New York Rifle and Pistol Clubs. The first three intended recipients-New York merchants who had killed three bandits -declined their commemorative plaques and $200 prizes. The federation's president, Gerald Preiser, tried to donate the money to the city's Patrolmen's Benevolent Association, but it too refused. Last week a New York janitor who wounded his assailant became the award's first winner. "I protect my life," he said, as the flashbulbs popped...
Dressed as usual in starched fatigues, combat boots and pistol belt, Castro expressed his admiration for American businessmen ("When they see an opportunity, they don't waste time"), but warned his visitors not to set their hopes too high. Cuba was interested in advanced technology, fertilizer and farm equipment, he said. "But I would be lying to you if I tried to make you think that tomorrow many commercial opportunities will immediately emerge." He argued that the embargo contradicts the Carter Administration's human rights policy because its purpose is to "damage a people." He added...
Carr, the mine foreman and leader of the scabs, pistol in pocket, leaning over the hood of his pick-up and talking low: "Hoffa's a communist...Teamsters, they're all communists...AFL-CIO's all communist...what's gonna happen to the country when the unions get in?" Here is the leader of the striking miners, pleading with the men to continue picket duty six months into the strike despite court injunctions that could make them subject to jail sentences: "Hell, lawyers are made to get you out of trouble when...
Mafia Hot Line. Detective fiction has it that the .22-cal. pistol with its tiny one-ounce slug is a gnat swatter, at its worst a woman's weapon snatched from a purse to dispatch an errant lover. No self-respecting all-pro killer would carry one. The facts, however, are otherwise. The CIA has long preferred the .22. The agency's predecessor, the Office of Strategic Services, developed a silencer-equipped Hi-Standard .22-cal. automatic pistol during World War II. It turned out to be the only production-model handgun that can be effectively silenced...
Nineteen other victims are listed by the FBI in the case of the .22 hits. Almost all were dispatched with multiple shots to the head from a .22-cal. automatic pistol. All had in some way crossed the Mob. The most noteworthy...