Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...detachment attacked, supported by mortar and artillery fire. "There were killed and wounded as a result," the Russians reported, though no specific casualty figures were given. The Chinese, in their turn, accused Soviet troops of provoking the battle. Chinese frontier guards, a Peking radio broadcast said, were "compelled to shoot back in self-defense...
...provoked emotional stories in the world press, and something close to an international crusade to halt the hunt. Angry letters and petitions flood Ottawa, and demonstrators have besieged Canadian embassies and consulates. Among the protesters are Americans obviously unaware that the U.S. sanctions hunters who annually club or shoot 120,000 seals in the Pribiloff Islands of Alaska. Boycotts have seriously affected sales of all varieties of seal furs, and sealskin prices. The income of Canadian Eskimos, who depend on pelt sales for a livelihood, has dropped in five years from...
...execution of his clients but goes so far as to include game hunters. Foreman takes genuine pleasure in telling the story of a deer hunter who, while sitting in the branches of a tree, fell out and impaled himself on the antlers of a deer he had meant to shoot. That, says Foreman, was "divine justice...
Once again, it was high noon in Athens. Once again, the big shoot-up paired off two old adversaries, Aristotle Onassis and Stavros Niarchos. For the past dozen years, they have clashed over business deals with almost the same fervor that they seek to outdo each other in their personal lives. The spoils have been about equally divided. Niarchos, whose estimated wealth is just under $500 million, won the license to run the country's first oil refinery and vast shipyards. Onassis, who is worth just over $500 million, got the national airline concession...
Each film by François Truffaut is a paradigm of innocence. The 400 Blows and Jules and Jim were about the destruction of innocence. Shoot the Piano Player and The Soft Skin described its dangers, and Fahrenheit 451 was its vindication. Even last year's The Bride Wore Black (TIME, July 5), a hard-edged homage to Hitchcock, contained much of the director's characteristic compassion for its driven, doomed characters. Stolen Kisses is Truffaut's newest and gentlest film, a lovely memory of adolescence that begins with the delight of youth and ends with...