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...bastion of white supremacists unwilling to accept South Africa's changing destiny. "I think there will be more explosions and more actions if the government ignores the just claim of my people who demand some land." The fiery rhetoric inspired some of the 300 khaki-clad men and pistol-packing women to rough up and then oust a black American reporter attending the otherwise desultory rally. The motive behind all the violence: a whites-only homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Ugly Fight for White Rights | 5/9/1994 | See Source »

...manager in suburban Chicago stabbed his boss to death because, police say, they couldn't agree on how to handle some paperwork. And a technician who quit because he had trouble working for a woman sneaked back inside his fiber-optics laboratory, pulled out a 9-mm Glock semiautomatic pistol and started firing at workers, who ducked or fled or curled up in closets and file cabinets. By the time he finished the job, two were dead, two were injured; he walked upstairs to an office and shot himself in the head...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Workers Who Fight Firing with Fire | 4/25/1994 | See Source »

...Suddenly 10 natives appeared in the middle of camp, shooting a homemade pistol," Albright's father, Dr. Nile L. Albright '61, says. "They hacked the tents open with a machete...

Author: By Jeffrey N. Gell, | Title: Kenyan Bandits Chase, Attack First-Year-to-Be | 4/16/1994 | See Source »

...even boycottedbathing for six weeks to make a politicalstatement," Brooks recalls. "He walked into ourroom and said...`You two will be condemned by theRevolution...'He then pulled out a gun, aimed itat my head and pulled the trigger...It must havebeen a cap gun or a starter's pistol. Bill justkind of chuckled and shrugged...

Author: By Manlio A. Goetzl, | Title: At Harvard, Weld Was Scholar, Free Spirit | 4/15/1994 | See Source »

...sundry media gigs. The titles of Grizzard's best-known works sum up his puckish view of the world, as filtered through his experiences as a multimarried Southern male child of the '50s: Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself and My Daddy Was a Pistol...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 4, 1994 | 4/4/1994 | See Source »

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