Word: pistoling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Labor Department investigators promptly made an appointment to meet Youngren at his office that night for further questioning. When they showed up, the office was dark. They found Youngren's body in a rest room, a bullet wound in the head, a .45-cal. pistol on the floor. Near by were a will and a note Youngren had scrawled to his wife: "I know this is the coward's way out, but I'm going to take...
...suspicious state troopers closed in, he jumped out, pulling the teen-ager with him. He opened fire with a pistol, ducked behind a corncrib and ran across the road to a farmhouse. Two shots rang out simultaneously-one fired by Larry Rubeck, 15, from the farmhouse, the other by a state policeman. Hollenbaugh fell dying, blood spurting from a severed jugular. Peggy dashed into the arms of Pittsburgh Newsman (and TIME Stringer) Scott Rombach. "Thank God!" she cried. "I'm safe...
...snipers. They were everywhere, firing at anything, and being answered fatally by the heavy firepower of Ky's troops. "Dodge City," grunted a Vietnamese marine. When one grenade-throwing rebel was captured, the loyalist officer in charge of the patrol wasted no words; he whipped out his pistol and shot the rebel through the chest...
...latest incidents came shortly before last week's election, when guerrillas kidnaped Government Information Chief Baltasar Morales and Supreme Court President Romeo de León, killing Morales' son and his chauffeur in a blaze of pistol fire. Contacting the Guatemalan Red Cross, the guerrillas said that the pair would be released after Peralta gave an accounting of the fate of 28 leftists arrested two months ago. None has been heard from, and there is a strong suspicion that some or all of the 28 were executed without a trial...
...American adults now enjoy the right to counsel in felony cases. Now Florida may also produce a "junior Gideon" in the case of Thomas W. Parker, 16. Last fall Parker was accused of burglarizing a hotel room, stealing a car, and robbing an old man of 60? at pistol point. Denied counsel, Parker was sent to a training school until the age of 21. On appeal, the American Civil Liberties Union argued that a youngster is entitled to a lawyer whenever the charges against him equal adult felonies. Having lost Round 1, the A.C.L.U. is taking Parker's case...