Word: pistols
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paunchy, middle-aged Mexican is lying on the side of the track. His arm is bleeding, and he has been hit in the stomach. An agent radios for an ambulance. "He turned on us with this," says Trevino, a 9-mm semiautomatic Taurus pistol in his hand. "We were lucky, real lucky...
...year most of the 3,000 murders in Medellin had to do with drugs. "Our way of life is being threatened," Bogota Prosecutor Francisco Bernal Castillo told TIME last month. Bernal, still reeling from the shock of the assassination of Hoyos, who had been his superior, was carrying a pistol in his waistband and was accompanied by a bodyguard. Last week Bernal fled to the U.S. after receiving death threats from the Medellin cartel...
Overcoming his actor's vanity, Ronald Reagan reluctantly started using a hearing aid in 1983 to correct an impairment suffered some 40 years earlier, when a pistol was fired close to his right ear during a filming session. To balance his hearing, the President later put a second device in his left ear. Last week Reagan, 77, began sporting new hearing aids that come with a half- & inch-thick, credit-card-size remote control...
...settlers agree with Ben-Yishai. For the 30 Jewish families in $ tiny Dolev, near Ramallah, the Palestinian violence has meant that school buses must be escorted by the military and that most residents strap on a pistol before stepping into their cars. But when some residents of Dolev advocated fighting back, the majority opted to let the army protect them...
...pulled his children from school to shield them from the influence of drugs and racial integration. His continued defiance led in 1979 to a siege that ended when police rushed Singer while he was on a trip to his mailbox. He was shot in the back after pulling a pistol...