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...escaped convict and a teenager suspected of a cross-country murder and robbery spree were nabbed in Santa Fe when they woke up in handcuffs. State police found Lewis Gilbert, 22, and Eric Elliot, 16, sleeping under a culvert -- with two high-powered rifles, a shotgun and a pistol. The cops followed up on a tip from a motorist who had given the two a ride last night. Gilbert and Elliot, both from Newcomerstown, Ohio, are suspected of kidnapping a 79-year-old Ohio woman, burglarizing her farmhouse and stealing her car a week ago, then killing a Missouri couple...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME . . . SLEEPING CULPRITS CAUGHT IN CULVERT | 9/6/1994 | See Source »

...lost his wife and child. "The marriage was a mistake," says an Arab friend. "He never trusted women." That same friend says, "He didn't trust the governments he worked for. This is why he was often depressed." It also explains why Carlos always carried a Russian pistol and never slept two nights in the same place...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Carlos Caged | 8/29/1994 | See Source »

...formed U.S. Park Service antipoaching unit pulled off a classic sting operation, arresting 27 citizens from Texas to Florida in the biggest poaching bust in Park Service history. The feds posed as amateur herpetologists and would-be buyers; the crime ring's alleged kingpin, who regularly carried a semiautomatic pistol, gave up without a fight. The Park Service carried out the operation for only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Killing Fields | 8/22/1994 | See Source »

Towards the end of the summer, Chatfield read that a friend of his had had a pistol drawn on him in a small town in Georgia...

Author: By Todd F. Braunstein, | Title: Chatfield Speaks on Civil Rights | 8/5/1994 | See Source »

...arrival brought to fruition the tentative peace agreement that Arafat and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin approved on the White House lawn last September. When he stepped onto Palestinian land for the first time in 27 years last Friday, Arafat was wearing his usual green military- style uniform, holstered pistol and checkered kaffiyeh. But he acknowledged that he must now switch roles from guerrilla leader to head of government. "We need national unity," he told a crowd of 70,000, who repeatedly drowned out his words with cheers. "Big, big, big, big missions await us -- to build this homeland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Walls Came Tumbling Down | 7/11/1994 | See Source »

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