Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Dorchester Street. Some 35 people surrounded Yvon's car, smashed his windshield and pulled him out. Someone shouted, "Get the nigger!" Yvon fled for the porch of a nearby house and clung to the railing as youths battered him with clubs. Only after a white policeman drew his pistol and fired some warning shots was a dazed and bleeding Yvon finally rescued. "He would have been dead if I hadn't fired," the policeman said later...
...brutalized by cops. When he realizes that the woman is a police man's wife, he goes crazy. The implication that violence breeds more violence is not novel, but welcome nonetheless in a time when audiences cheer and holler as Charles Bronson plays judge and jury with a pistol...
Yasser Arafat, 44, still wears the green fatigues, desert boots and bullet-studded pistol belt of an underground fighter. But the founder of al-Fatah and leader of the Palestine Liberation Organization is now more politician and diplomat than guerrilla commander. He travels almost constantly around the Arab world, shoring up support for his movement. Arafat's zeal for the Palestinians' cause is undiminished, reported TIME Correspondent Karsten Prager after an interview with the P.L.O. chairman in Beirut, but it has become tempered with pragmatism. Excerpts...
...turned out, however, the Dragons of Death, who never numbered more than about 50, did not really breathe fire. On the third day of their sit-in, three unimposing civil policemen, one of them armed with a pistol and the other two carrying only batons, pushed past the unshaven, hollow-eyed vigilantes at the station door. "Go home," one of the policemen said. "We will handle this from now on." There was a brief protest, and some of the young rebels menacingly fingered their shotguns and pistols. Finally, one of the policemen put down his baton and wrenched a rocket...
...expected, Maddox led the crowded field of twelve candidates. After all, he has kept himself continuously in the public eye since 1964, when he drove blacks away from his Pickrick restaurant in Atlanta with a pistol and pick handles. But with just under 36% of the votes, his margin is too small to assure him the support he needs in the runoff on Sept. 3. He will face George Busbee, 47, a respected member of the state house of representatives for 18 years and now majority leader. Busbee won only 21% of the primary votes, but stands to gain more...