Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...last week's shootout, both the federal forces and the insurgents holding the village exchanged fire with armed vigilante groups formed by disgruntled Wounded Knee residents who have been ousted by the militant occupation. There is strong reason to suspect that the vigilantes are displaced Oglala Sioux hoping to end the siege, but Tribal Council President Richard Wilson denies any involvement by his followers...
...anxious to make sure we know they know. Therefore they stress the mythic overtones that pop cultists are always finding in the standard western forms. All the ritual scenes−Eastwood's menacing entrance ride down Main Street, the saloon confrontation and the barbershop Shootout that establish his credentials as a law-and-order man−are handled so that the emphasis is on archetypicality rather than on believable action...
...leader, jumped out to announce that both sides had agreed to a ceasefire proposed by the National Council of Churches of Christ. Reported Huff: "There were whoops of joy as the sun set behind a ridge spotted with the silhouettes of jagged pines." That precarious truce held despite a shootout between Indian patrol guards and federal marshals just an hour later. Two Indians were shot, one in the hand and one in the leg, and both sides argued over who had fired first...
...notes and tapes. The burden would then be on the source to tell the reporter no more than he is willing to see brought to light--either in print or in court. It is doubtful whether Caldwell would have been admitted to a Black Panther headquarters during a shootout if he could only have promised not to reveal identities, but would have had to reveal under oath everything else he saw. Still, some forms of confidential leaks where the information flow could be carefully regulated by the source might not be discouraged by such a qualified policy of journalists' privilege...
...police dug further, they began to suspect that Essex may have been involved in earlier unsolved shootings. Just one week before the Howard Johnson shootout, on New Year's Eve, one cop had been killed and two wounded within the space of 15 minutes in or near police headquarters. Slugs recovered from two of the victims matched some of the .44 magnum bullets fired during the Howard Johnson murders. The morning of the shootout, a white grocer in New Orleans' black Broadmoor section was also shot and wounded by a .44 magnum slug. The attacker fled on foot...