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Nonetheless, the jokes keep on coming. Titters resound even in what are meant to be grim moments: the exposure and imprisonment of one of Eugene's barracks mates as a homosexual; a nervy confrontation between a drunk drill sergeant wielding a loaded pistol and a raw recruit whom the officer despises. The detached Eugene, moreover, proves Arnold's attack true by being offstage during these scenes; he is so passive that the viewer may long for a play that focuses more on Arnold. Inevitably, the sequel lacks some of the roundedness and universality of Brighton Beach: a military stopover cannot...
Later that year, Goetz applied for a pistol permit. Although he cited the fact that he routinely carried large sums of cash and valuable equipment, his application was rejected on grounds of insufficient need. Goetz was bitter. On a subsequent trip to his family's Florida home, he bought a nickel-plated, lightweight Smith & Wesson .38-cal. revolver...
Suddenly two men on a motorcycle appeared behind the car, and the man on the back of the bike fired a pistol through the Volga's rear window. The panic- stricken chauffeur jammed on the brakes, allowing the gunman to pump more bullets through a side window of the car. Khitrichenko was hit four times--in the head, chest, neck and wrist; less than an hour later he was pronounced dead at Lohia Hospital. His wife and the driver sustained minor injuries from flying glass...
...money. Gambling data was just starting to appear in the sports pages and on pregame television shows. But betting had long since been classified as high jinks by Damon Runyon, and this was the rollicking spirit in which McLain was viewed, even when he was suspended for carrying a pistol six months later, two years before his big-league life wore out at 28. He is in a Florida jail now, awaiting sentencing for racketeering, extortion and cocaine possession, 41 years old and facing possibly 75 years in prison. The two Cy Young Awards have been sold. In recent years...
...most wanted terrorists in the world. Italian authorities say he was an accomplice of Mehmet Ali Agca on that fateful day in May 1981 when Agca tried to assassinate Pope John Paul II. He may in fact have fired at least one pistol shot at the Pontiff before fleeing from St. Peter's Square. But for the past four years, the shadowy Oral Celik, 25, has remained on the loose, his whereabouts a mystery. Says one Italian official involved in the investigation of the papal shooting: "We know nothing...