Word: pointblank
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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With the Post defense swarming around Ivy Rookie of the Year Mickey Cavuoti, the Crimson's crisp passing repeatedly led to wide-open scoring opportunities. Janotte made several key saves, including pointblank denials of David Kramer and Perry Dodge stuff attempts...
...letter, for instance, is his skillful handling of the important question of the rights of hecklers, an issue that has particular immediacy on a campus where in recent years the Secretary of Defense, Jerry Falwell, and a representative of the P.L.O. have all had difficulty getting their messages across. Pointblank, Bok disposes of the numerous red herrings thrown up by proponents of the idea that drowning out a speaker is sometimes admissable behavior...
...count, more than 4,000 men, women and children; of a gunshot wound; in Paris. Oveissi was strolling along the fashionable Rue de Passy with his brother and a family friend when a lone gunman walked up behind the men and fired a 9-mm pistol at pointblank range. Both Oveissis died instantly; the third man escaped injury. Two groups, the Islamic Jihad and the Revolutionary Organization for Liberation and Reform, claimed responsibility for the killings. The next day, the United Arab Emirates' Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, 38, was gunned down in similar fashion...
...searching the perimeter" of the security cordon for troublemakers. On hearing the fatal gunshot, each had turned back toward the plane from which Aquino had disembarked only seconds before, just in time to see a blue-uniformed gunman behind Aquino shoot him in the back of the head at pointblank range...
...separate - and slightly differing - accounts of Balang and Regalado departed dramatically from the official description. According to both versions, Galman never got within pointblank range behind Aquino as military wit nesses had claimed. Moreover, Galman had not been pushed off balance by one of Aquino's escorts and then shot - rather, he "was knocked down by a bullet as he held a gun with two hands over his head." Though the TV report was not aired in the Philippines, and is not admissible as official testimony, it received coverage in Manila newspapers. Lawyers acting on behalf of the AVSECOM...