Word: shooting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...deliberate diversion. I was sure that a killer team must be climbing up the steps to the airplane under cover and unseen." But there was no killer team. In fact, no returning fire came from the DC-8. Instead, astonished Cypriot officials immediately ordered their national guardsmen to shoot the commandos. The Egyptians were caught in a deadly fusillade; the Jeep was hit by grenades, its occupants killed. Most of the outgunned Egyptians took shelter in a nearby plane. Finally they surrendered. Then the hijackers meekly turned over their weapons and gave themselves...
...addition, there is considerable evidence that Smith is not dealing in good faith with Rhodesia's blacks. Ominous signs like an order last week to shoot black villagers out of their homes after 8 p.m. can only indicate that Smith is once again trying to buy time by dividing his opposition and maintaining Rhodesia's repressive atmosphere...
...Wendy moves the offense well because she gets the ball to the person who is going to shoot fast," Kleinfelder said...
Because the F-16 is so quick, a pilot swooping down to shoot up a column of trucks is apt to see a brown blur as he races over the ground. So, for strafing runs, there is a computerized control system that will hold the F-16 on target as its guns fire away, 6,000 rounds a minute...
...scale revolt was on. David Lamb of the Los Angeles Times excused himself during lunch and never rejoined the tour. Randy Daniels of CBS-TV staged a loud argument with an official and the guards in the hotel lobby, while his film crew slipped out the back way to shoot pictures of their own choice. Others left the hotel before the guards were awake. By midweek about half of the Western reporters had disengaged themselves from the official program and were scurrying around interviewing or taking pictures of bodies sprawled on the sidewalks-victims of the regime...