Word: pointblank
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Seeing the bodies of the Israeli children, and reading of their murder by bazooka "at pointblank range," one cannot help recalling the U.N. debates following the 1967 war and the lamentations of the Saudi Arabian ambassador who passionately accused Israel and the world of "not understanding the Arab mind." Now, perhaps...
...pointblank range, scarcely 20 yards, the guerrillas fired three U.S.-made 82-mm. bazooka shells. They could hardly miss. One shell exploded above the driver's seat; he was killed instantly but clung grotesquely to the wheel as the bus swayed another 60 yards down the road. The other shells hit the body of the vehicle, tearing out the floor and spraying the occupants with shrapnel. Bodies, bookbags and lunch boxes were strewn around the wreckage. Two teachers and seven children died instantly: another student and teacher died later, and the remaining 20 aboard the bus were all wounded...