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...Wessin announced operación libre to liberate the city. The army garrison at San Cristóbal rallied to his side; the navy joined in, lobbed 3-in. shells at the palace. Air force planes made repeated strafing runs. Then across the river rumbled the tanks, firing almost point-blank into rebel Ciudad Nueva...
...spoke, three men rushed down the aisle toward him. Eight feet away, they opened fire. One Negro with a double-barreled sawed-off shotgun blasted Malcolm at point-blank range. "There was what sounded like an explosion," said a dazed woman. "I looked at Malcolm, and there was blood running out of his goatee." Men and women threw themselves to the floor as the gunmen squeezed off at least a score of shots. Thirteen shotgun pellets tore into Malcolm's chest and heart; several slugs from .45-and .38-cal. pistols shattered his thighs and legs. A woman screamed...
...Robert Rupley, 24, California Peace Corpsman stationed in Venezuela since last September; of a bullet wound inflicted when trigger-happy Caracas plainclothes policemen mistook him and three fellow corpsmen for Communist terrorists, shot out the tires on their station wagon when they ignored an order to stop, then fired point-blank when the Americans climbed out with their hands up, hitting Rupley in the heart and critically wounding David Glover, 25, of Grosse He, Mich., in the stomach...
...coincidence, the montage appeared the same day last December as West German President Heinrich Lübke's annual game hunt for diplomats in Westphalia, giving the Iranian ambassador opportunity to vent his indignation point-blank to the chief of state. Lübke's sympathy for the envoy's case was hardly reduced by the fact that the Stadt-Anzeiger had vigorously opposed Lübke's re-election as President in 1964. On a New Year's Eve TV program, he announced without mentioning names, that a journalist had "disparaged a friendly head...
Rifles and Sten guns rattling, they fired point-blank into the seated hostages. The gunners picked women and children as their first targets. Many whites flopped onto the pavement, pretending to be dead. Others did not have to pretend. One Belgian child was cut in half by a Sten-gun burst. Parents who flung themselves over their children were stitched by the wild bullets that sprayed the crowd. A woman sat openmouthed as gunfire chopped down the people on either side of her. She somehow came through unhurt...