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...first one in these Games and in the history of China was won by pistol-shooting Xu Haifeng, a fertilizer salesman recruited just three years ago on his rustic reputation for being handy with a slingshot. Throughout the week, the Chinese dominated the weight lifting, a Bulgarian and Soviet preserve, occasionally spicing the entertainment with wonderful backflips. From the top stand, Gold Medal Featherweight Chen WeiQuiang reached down and vigorously pumped the hand of Bronze Medalist Tsai Wen-Yee of Chinese Taipei, or Taiwan. "We are all Chinese" was the translation for both...
...faced a threat of armed insurrection from the outlawed Communist New People's Army. For weeks, defense forces have been waging widely publicized raids on N.P.A. strongholds in the countryside, partly to create public support for the government; Marcos was photographed during one operation wearing fatigues with a pistol strapped to his belt...
...history. He currently writes short essays on art and politics for the newspaper La Estrella de Panamá; conducts a long-distance collaboration with Gabriel Garcia Márquez on a cycle of songs based on some of the Nobel prizewinner's early stories; and, with his pistol-hot band, Sets del Solar (Six from the Tenement), has been galvanizing a concert tour that has ricocheted from Berkeley, Calif., to the Cannes Film Festival and home to New York City. He can also be heard on the sound track of Beat Street, the just opened break-dancing movie, doing...
...shot at least three times in the back by an assassin who escaped in the crowded streets); in Mexico City. His columns, which had recently zeroed in on corruption in the oil industry and its powerful union, had provoked several death threats, and he carried a pistol at all times...
Brigadier General Norman ("Dutch") Cota, assistant commander of the 29th Division, waved his .45 pistol as he strode heedlessly through the gunfire. When he found a cluster of soldiers in the shelter of the embankment, he asked them who they were. They said they were Rangers. "Then, goddammit," said the general, "if you're Rangers, get up and lead the way." They did. Under the cover of a brushfire that had been started by the Navy shelling, 35 men managed to scale the bluffs and get behind the German gun positions...