Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...climaxed a bizarre odyssey that had a special and disturbing fascination for Americans. They had been appalled by the violence of the whole affair: the strong-arm kidnaping near a college campus, then the bank robbery in which Patty herself wielded a gun, then the surrealistic, nationally televised shootout that left six of her companions dead. With some apprehension, parents debated just why Patty, the heiress to a celebrated fortune, had become a self-proclaimed revolutionary. Many people claimed to have spotted her in various parts of the world, yet she managed to elude the great chase-until last Thursday...
...struggle is abetted by another skier, a cordial eccentric called "Mad Dog" Dick Buek (Beau Bridges) who wants to marry her. She greets his initial proposal with one of those speeches about pity that seem to be required by films like this the way a western needs a Shootout. In the end, she changes her mind-but when he flies to join her, Buek dies in a crash. It is some indication of the hollowness of The Other Side of the Mountain that this piece of real personal tragedy comes out looking like the last desperate invention of a weary...
...grassy rise overlooking an Indian ranch on South Dakota's Pine Ridge reservation last week, a cluster of Oglala Sioux mourners gathered to bury Joseph Bedell Stuntz, 23, an Indian killed two weeks ago in a Shootout with two FBI agents, who also lost their lives. The day before, FBI Director Clarence Kelley attended services in Southern California, where the two agents were buried with honors...
More than 150 federal agents continued their search across the 2.7 million-acre reservation for the 16 Indians believed responsible for the FBI men's deaths. A possible motive for the shootout was found. Some 300 yds. behind the cluster of houses where the shooting took place, Indians had stashed an impressive store of weapons and explosives. The agents sought simply to arrest a kidnaping suspect; but the Indians may have feared they were about to discover their cache, panicked and opened fire...
...counts of attempted murder and multiple counts of bank robbery, arson, bombing, forgery and grand larceny. After the recent murder of West Berlin Supreme Court Judge Giinter von Drenkmann, the kidnaping of Berlin Opposition Leader Peter Lorenz, the bombing of the West German embassy in Stockholm and the Shootout between terrorists and police in Cologne three weeks ago, authorities were taking no chances. Even the five higher-court judges who are hearing the case (there is no jury) were armed with pistols and had undergone training in target shooting...