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...International Sports Club in San Salvador. The officer, who had wanted to leave his desk job for a field assignment in the five-year-old civil war against leftist guerrillas, was relaxing last week beside a tennis court when three men in tennis clothes approached. One pulled out a pistol and shot Cienfuegos in the head, killing him instantly. Before fleeing, the killers draped their victim's body with the red-and-yellow flag of the Popular Liberation Forces (F.P.L.), a faction of the rebel Farabundo Marti Popular Liberation Front...
...suppose so, otherwise I would send you to Gulag." But Buckley's most cutting remarks come from newspapers of the day: Columnist Walter Lippmann assures his readers, " 'The present Cuban military buildup is not capable of offensive action.' " The New York Times reports that not even " 'a water pistol, as one official put it,' " had got through to Cuba...
...condoned, noted that in the wake of the Goetz case a hit-and-run driver in New York City had been caught and beaten by an enraged mob. Said the Journal: "Authorities must recognize that their own failure to protect citizens itself breeds crime." The Boston Globe viewed "pistol- packin' Bernhard Goetz" with alarm: "With no psychiatric evaluation yet made, he may resemble Richard Speck more than Wyatt Earp...
When Edward Cooperman, a professor of physics at California State University, Fullerton was found dead in his office last October, shot in the neck by a .25-cal. pistol that lay in his hand, police at first suspected suicide. Several hours later, they arrested the man who reported the crime, Minh Van Lam, 21, a Vietnamese immigrant and former student of Cooperman's. Lam later admitted shooting the gray-haired professor, but insisted it was an accident that happened while the two of them were "playing around" with the pistol at Cooperman's suggestion...
...shootout in a Portland, Ore., motel last month, they got a bigger break than they realized at the time. Last week FBI ballistics experts confirmed that among the weapons found in Suspect Gary Lee Yarbrough's home in Sandpoint, Idaho, was the 45-cal. mac-10 submachine pistol used last June to murder Alan Berg, a combative and controversial Denver radio talk-show host. Yarbrough denied the killing, insisting that he was given the weapon after the shooting. At week's end he had not been charged in the case...