Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Making for the Mosel. In the past two years, according to one unofficial source, Soviet jets have poked their noses into Western airspace 95 times-mostly on just such sniffing missions. But when a Western plane goes into Communist territory, innocently or not, the Russians do not hesitate to shoot. Since 1950, 108 U.S. airmen have died or disappeared within Communist airspace, the last three only seven weeks ago when an unarmed-and demonstrably innocent-T-39 jet trainer was blasted from the leaden skies over Vogelsberg (TIME...
...what of the future? "I will be dead in nine months," he wept. "God has told me. Someone, a Somali I think, will shoot me in Nairobi. However hard I try to get away, death will be there." It wasn't. After keeping his appointment in Nairobi (where he claimed he had less than two shillings to his name), Okello found himself persona non grata. So he bought himself a dark blue Peugeot, packed his pistol and candy-striped cane, and set off for Uganda...
...District Attorney Henry Wade explained afterward, the real expert witness in the Ruby trial was not a specialist but a policeman. The prosecution clinched its case by showing premeditated intent: Ruby, so the officer testified, had said: "I hope I killed the son of a bitch! I intended to shoot him three times...
...Ruby was hustled off, a police captain said, "Of all the low-life things, this takes the cake! Why did you do it?" Replied Ruby: "Someone had to do it -you guys, the police, couldn't do it. I intended to shoot him three times, but you all moved too fast for me and I didn't get but one shot...
...company had recovered its financial health, Opel's Ohio-born Managing Director Nelson J. Stork, 59, a veteran in G.M.'s overseas divisions, began to level his sights on Volkswagen in the low-cost range and Mercedes in the high-priced group. Says Stork: "We decided to shoot for more customers and try to keep them by offering everything from a one-liter small car to the biggest...