Word: shooted
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Harvard women's squash team finished last season at 7-0--good enough for first place. The racquet-women will shoot for their second consecutive league crown this winter, and with two freshman joining a strong corps of returning players, the Crimson figures to be the team to beat once again. The freshmen are Clark of McLean, Va. and Daphine Onderdok of Phildelphia...
Ever since the Civil War, the Federal Government has not been very popular in Georgia. Last week the Peach State and its capital, Atlanta, got an unusual chance to shoot back once again at Washington, this time over tax reform. In one of the first legal challenges to the Reagan Administration's 1986 Tax Reform Act, the city and state governments filed suit in federal court, charging that the measure unlawfully restricts the tax-exempt status of interest from municipal bonds. Former U.S. Attorney General Griffin Bell, who is handling the plaintiffs' suit, claims that the act places unconstitutional limits...
...Participants in the four previous uprisings against her have generally been let off lightly, but U.S. officials are counseling firmness this time. "Heads have to roll," says a Pentagon official. Already the President may be wavering. The government even seemed to be backing off from its earlier order to shoot Honasan on sight. And though she had earlier said the time for reconciliation had passed, last week Aquino almost seemed to be providing alibis for many of her prisoners. "When we interviewed the captives," Aquino said on television, "we found that the enlisted men had been told that they were...
...roaming the rough bush country of east, central and southern Africa. Today there are fewer than 4,000, half of them in Zimbabwe. The Zambezi Valley, with more than 500 animals, now holds the world's last viable breeding herd. To defend them, the country has launched a controversial shoot-on-sight war against poachers, who are killing the rhinos at a rate of one a day. "We have an obligation to the rest of the world to save our rhinos," declares Willie K. Nduku, Zimbabwe's director of national parks. "We won't spare our ammunition...
...rhino hunters cross the border from Zambia. Rangers try to stop them without bloodshed, insists Blondie Leathem, 29, who coordinates the Zambezi Valley patrols, but "trying to arrest a man with an AK-47 is like trying to grab a lion with your bare hands. We must often shoot first to protect our lives...