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Through the day, at a campaign headquarters in an open-air beer garden, pistol-packing radio announcers claimed victory for a jowly man in a sweat-soaked sport shirt who stomped up & down among the tables: Candidate José Antonio Remón, once commander and still boss of Panama's only armed force, the 3,300-man National Police. Actually, because Panamanians count votes at their leisure (after the last election they took three months), "Chichi" Remón would not know the exact tally for weeks. But behind Chichi were his cops, the government, control of most...
...bullet whizzed through her handbag. Léon ran home, downed some sleeping pills, turned on the gas jets in the kitchen, aimed the pistol at his own head and pulled the trigger. Superficially wounded, he woke up in the hospital soon afterward to find himself charged with attempted murder. "But," he stammered, "she tried to murder me too!" "Eh, bien," the gendarmes sighed and went out after Madeleine...
...mastered the Times. Before he could do so, his restless, driving mind crossed the fine line separating eccentricity from madness. When Steed went to see Northcliffe in Paris in the spring of 1922, he found him in bed, gabbling excitedly of plots on his life. He had a loaded pistol in one hand and a "book of piety" in the other, drew a bead on a dressing gown hanging on the door under the impression that an intruder had entered the room. He made Steed accompany him to Southern France, where hotel employees lined up to honor the visiting millionaire...
...revolutionary society hurled bombs at Machado's hated police. President Roosevelt sent Sumner Welles to help ease Machado out without an insurrection. Machado went, and Cuba exploded in the celebrated "Sergeant's Revolt." On Sept. 4, 1933, Sergeant Batista, the ringleader, walked into Camp Columbia headquarters, pistol in hand, and told the army chief he was relieved of duty...
...Janos drew a line and pointed at his mouth and ears to show when he had lost his voice and hearing. Two circles later, he pantomimed the shooting of a machine gun. A succeeding sketch, showing the dotted lines of bullets headed straight from the muzzle of a machine-pistol to the heads of a man and a woman-presumably his father & mother -explained the shooting. The pistol was held by a soldier marked clearly with a hammer & sickle...