Word: pistols
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...found time to play a soccer match with a group of young Grenadians, who graciously held down the score while defeating the invaders 6-2. The postcombat letdown may have spawned one tragedy: at midweek, a G.I. accidentally shot and killed a fellow soldier while cleaning a .45-cal. pistol. Said Major General Jack Farris, commander of the U.S. forces in Grenada: "It's what happens when the war winds down. People get complacent. They get careless...
...industrial warehouses near Heathrow Airport, 15 miles west of London. Without apparent difficulty, they slipped past the searchlights and highly sophisticated alarm system that guard the building. Once inside, the intruders overpowered seven security men, handcuffing five of them together. The other two were less fortunate: the gunmen pistol-whipped one; they slashed through the other's shirt, tickled his stomach with a knife and then poured gasoline over his body. One false move, he was warned, and he would be set afire. Finally, one of the prisoners managed to wriggle free of his handcuffs...
...suburb of Athens, for the 30-minute drive to his office in downtown Athens. This time, however, two men on a Vespa motor scooter were shadowing him. When the car stopped for a red light, the scooter zoomed alongside, and a gunman fired seven shots from a .45-cal. pistol, killing Tsantes instantly and fatally wounding his driver...
Tsantes, 53, was the first American to be killed by terrorists in Athens since Dec. 23, 1975, when CIA Station Chief Richard Welch was shot down outside his home by a gunman with a .45-cal. pistol. Hours after last week's shooting, a man telephoned the Greek daily Elefterotypia and claimed responsibility for the killing on behalf of the 17th November Revolutionary Organization, the group that took responsibility for Welch's assassination. Ballistics tests later showed that Tsantes had been shot with the same gun that killed Welch...
...without making an explicit social statement. The film is "an explanation of something that happened in history, with different viewpoints, so that people could evaluate what happened themselves--they need the ambiguity and contradiction," said Young, who rewrote the original script--adapted from the novel With His Pistol in His Hand by Americo Paredes--in the six days before production began...