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Next day, in a more thorough examination, police discovered the spent cartridge case almost hidden in a corner near the window overlooking the square. They also found seven handguns, two ammunition clips and two pistol grips for a submachine gun, as well as twelve bulletproof vests and an assortment of ammunition. The discovery was made in the presence of a Saudi Arabian diplomat accompanying the searchers as an independent observer...
After Biltine comes the Sahara. Driving in the desert is like swimming in treacle. The engine screams and one inches forward with painful slowness. To stop can mean being delayed for hours, perhaps days. Suddenly a Toyota appears, followed by a truck. The wild-eyed leader, his pistol wrapped in a cloth, begs for gasoline, explaining that his small escadron has been driving all night...
When they emerged from the changing room, one was carrying an armload of grenades and the other, described as too young even to shave, was wielding a machine pistol. "He pressed the gun to my temple," said Sales Clerk Rani Cohen, 18, recalling his turbulent first day on the job, "and we looked each other in the eye." But the Arabs inexplicably spared Cohen, raced into the street and for seven frenzied minutes wildly bombarded the area with grenades and bullets. Their fire was promptly returned by several quick-witted citizens. By the time the smoke cleared, 46 civilians were...
...wife and their three children, to a city in Georgia. Now, two years after he left Chicago, McLaughlin is convinced he has been discovered and marked for death. He says that he was stopped last month by three men on a street near his new home. Brandishing a pistol, one of the men ordered him to get into a waiting car. The three strangers drove McLaughlin to a deserted wooded area, forced him out of the car and began beating him, at one point brutally stomping on his head. "Cut his hand off! Cut his hand...
...life to saving girls like Angel with lines like "You're living in a dream world, baby,"; the college counselor, who visits Angel's roach-ridden tenement in an I Magnan's dress to save the bright, ambitious student; and, of course, the strectfelk--including the protective transvestite, the pistol-toting imitator of Kit Carson, and the tobacco-chewing; gun-wielding landlord...