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Then a black guy drove up in a big truck and got the white man inside and got him away. He had to pull a pistol to get people back from his truck." Fullwood tried her best to stay out of the melee, but she was later hit by a bottle and now has a gash on her left...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Ghetto Voices: You Can't Help from Being Angry | 6/2/1980 | See Source »

...night last October, two gunmen burst into the Isfahan bedroom of Anglican Bishop Hassan Barnaba Dehqani-Tafti and his British-born wife Margaret, spraying them with automatic-pistol fire. Four bullets pierced the pillow near the bishop's head. Amazingly, he was not hit, though his wife received a bullet in the arm. The bishop, president of the Central Synod which includes all Anglicans in the Middle East, fled to exile in Cyprus...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Unholy War | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...bite." For Green Ice, a film about murder in the emerald trade that pits her and Ryan O'Neal against Villain Omar Sharif, Archer had to master a loaded gun. "I did well," she laughs. "I learned to hold my right wrist with my left hand, bring the pistol up and shoot right away. My teacher was surprised." And doubtless gave her a blank look...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, May 26, 1980 | 5/26/1980 | See Source »

...shrimper, a woman gave birth; on another boat, a man suffered a heart attack. There was a mini-mutiny aboard one boat; the captain, impatient after five days, decided to return home, although he had a $38,000 charter to pick up refugees. An angry exile pulled out a pistol and held him in his cabin a full day. The Cuban military presence also became more visible. Soldiers patrolled the banks of the harbor with automatic rifles. Jumbo choppers whipped across the bay by day, and searchlights swept the waters by night. Suddenly, the rescuers had become captives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Escape from Bedlam and Boredom | 5/12/1980 | See Source »

...more than a month in the same limousine that he used to visit bankers. In the last days of the Viet Nam War, Daly organized, paid for and flew on a World mercy flight into Danang hours before the North Vietnamese captured the city. The self-styled "old bastard" pistol-whipped and kicked mutinous South Vietnamese troops who tried to board the refugee flight...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Happy Gambler of the Air | 4/28/1980 | See Source »

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