Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Such an incident would have gone virtually unnoticed in any major city in the U.S. In London, Fleet Street and the BBC treated the shootout as if it were a holocaust. The reason: that was only the third shooting of a suspect by a London policeman since...
...hour battle. One Peronist youth was killed by a tear-gas canister fired at pointblank range, and the melee was broken up only when army units moved in. Juan Abal Medina, a leader of Perón's Justicialist Party whose brother had been killed in the 1970 Shootout, threatened more confrontations. "If the armed forces continue with their campaign of violence," he said, "they will lead Peronist youth...
...pilots are equally concerned about the absence of international agreement on how to deal with skyjackers. They are particularly annoyed at Britain and France, which have taken a relatively lenient attitude toward hijackers and have opposed the use of sky marshals because of the danger of a shootout in the air. British policy places top priority on the safety of the passengers and calls for pilots to comply with hijackers' demands whenever possible. The pilots are also disturbed by the casual attitude of the Italian government, which did not get around to drawing up a bill making skyjacking illegal...
...world that thought itself accustomed to horror, it was yet another notch on an ever-rising scale of grotesquerie. The murders in Munich last week-preceded by 20 hours of high drama and precipitated by a horrendously bungled police shootout -gripped most of the world in attentive thrall. Because the drama was carried live on television, the suspense involved everyone, evoking memories of similarly intensely emotional events and a train of other murders that seemed to begin that day in Dallas in 1963. This time the final monstrous twist was that the killings were in Munich, the original spawning ground...
...hoped we were doing something, he said." At Genscher's pleading, the Arabs pushed back their deadline for executing the hostages if their demands were not met first to 3 p.m. and then to 5 p.m. In all, they were to change it four times before the climactic shootout that ended the tragedy; it is at least conceivable that they might have been stalled even longer, and with less horrible results...