Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Symbionese Shootout...
...appalled and disgusted at the savagery and violence of the attack by the Los Angeles police department on members the Symbionese Liberation Army during the recent Shootout in Los Angeles 27]. They not only destroyed valuable clues and evidence, but burned to death six frightened young people who could possibly have been flushed out by water, gas, hunger, lack of ammunition, or the waiting game...
...three weeks after her six comrades in the Symbionese Liberation Army died in a Shootout with police, Patricia ("Tania") Hearst dropped out of sight. Last week she and Fellow Survivors William and Emily Harris surfaced in a 33-minute tape-recorded message clandestinely delivered to radio station KPFK in Los Angeles. In it the newspaper heiress heaped scorn on her parents, vowed to fight on against "the pigs," and revealed that she had taken an S.L. A. member as her lover...
...Israeli forces storm a school in Ma'alot where fedayeen have taken students as hostages; 27 are killed and 70 wounded in the Shootout. Negotiations are temporarily suspended...
...Eluding the law, he scrunches down in the back seat of a bus, where he is conveniently overlooked. It is almost as if Siegel lacked confidence in the measured tension of the first half and went after what is supposed to be a sure thing: a chase and a shootout. The standard formula looks particularly shabby on a film good enough to have broken...