Word: pistoleer
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...ones that have become all too familiar in recent years: taxes, crime and race. Last week voters in Detroit selected a white career law-enforcement officer, Police Commissioner John F. Nichols, 54, and a black state senator, Coleman Young, 55, as candidates for mayor. Nichols, who campaigns with a pistol tucked in his belt, stressed law-and-order and drew 98% of the white vote. Young, who at times carries a pistol of his own, called his opponent "Blackjack Nichols" and promised to end heavyhanded police tactics in minority neighborhoods. He drew 98% of the black vote. Since Detroit...
...Smith, a gun-shy black junkie looking for a fast buck and a quick escape from his "batty" accomplice, wheeled off on a stickup spree−and kept getting lost somewhere among the freeways. This oddest of couples−Powell wearing a joke-shop disguise, Smith petrified that the pistol stuck in his belt might go off and destroy his manhood−made one U-turn too many and were stopped by a pair of plainclothesmen...
...bandit armed with a pistol entered the New York City office of a woman psychiatrist not long ago and robbed her. As he backed out the door he fired a shot, grazing the doctor on the head. Thrown into severe shock, she was taken to an emergency ward where the doctor on duty, trying to learn whether there had been brain damage, asked her: "Whom do Ehrlichman and Haldeman hate most...
...finds were hitchhikers whom they picked up. They would invite the youths to Corll's home for "parties" of paint and glue sniffing. There the victims would be handcuffed to a specially constructed plywood board, sexually abused, and finally strangled or shot with Corll's .22-cal. pistol...
...Veteran Leader Scott Camil called "Phoenix II" (named after a CIA-sponsored project to eliminate Viet Cong cadres in Viet Nam). Lemmer told the jury that early in 1972, Camil said he was conducting training operations for political assassination squads on an isolated Florida farm with facilities for rifle, pistol and mortar practice. Lemmer, who spent approximately two years as an FBI informer, testified that the plotting veterans had traded "dope for weapons." He related that once Defendant John W. Kniffen had demonstrated how to use a crossbow by firing a steel shaft through a door. He also claimed that...