Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Perhaps the most feared of all the dissenting groups is the ETA (Basque Nation and Freedom), a dedicated clan of about 600 Basque extremists. Since their military leader, Eustaqui Mendizabel, was killed in a Shootout with police last April, the Basques had been silent. Earlier this month, however, they burst into action again, invading an exclusive yacht club near Bilbao. While gunmen forced 100 diners to lie on the floor, other Basques set fire to the building, a symbol of a moneyed, privileged class favored by the Franco regime. Other more minor incidents, like the blowing up of cars, occurred...
...harder mentality, prepared for the contest with high spirit and keen concentration. Bumper stickers in Raleigh admonished: STOP THE WALTON GANG. Though the event was televised nationally, some 4,000 State fans journeyed by chartered plane, bus, private car and even motorcycle to St. Louis, where the Shootout was held on neutral ground. Coach Norm Sloan claimed that his team was doing nothing very special to gear up: "We really don't have anything to prove," he said before leaving for St. Louis. But 7 ft. 4 in. Center Tom Burleson was busy studying films of his opposite number...
...this city of losers it is not surprising that Philadelphians usually have little venom left for the disappointments that are really killing them. Frank Rizzo--the supercop of 28 years who once challenged the Black Panthers to a shootout is now the mayor, owning a two-year-old mandate to clean up the streets. An enthusiastic Democrat-for-Nixon, Rizzo has been in trouble for the last two months since a secret police force was discovered investigating his enemies in Philadelphia politics. The Philadelphia Daily News asked him to submit to a lie detector test--a source of evidence...
...manager during the day and developed the Wolfman routine as the nighttime star. Control of the station was being contested by a rival faction, which at one point tried to take over by using hired gunmen. Wolfman says that he and his own pistoleros recaptured the station in a shootout that killed one of the bad guys. Later he ran a second station in Rosarito Beach, near Tijuana...
...movie abandons all credibility in the final shootout. Reynolds, who has lain seriously wounded on the ground for many minutes, walks away alive from an entire posse...