Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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President Thieu decided to move against the veterans after a recent gun battle in Saigon between police and hugs belonging to one of several veterans' groups. The shootout gave Thieu he excuse he needed to launch a genial crackdown that, he hopes, will curb disturbances by veterans until long-overdue reforms defuse their discontent...
...into hiding. Most of her friends presume her innocence, though they are troubled. But the circumstantial evidence kept accumulating last week. Police say she purchased a shotgun two days before it was used to murder Judge Harold J. Haley, as well as three other weapons used in the shootout. A day before the killings, she was reported seen in the yellow truck in which the judge was killed. Three hours after the gunfight, she bought an airplane ticket in nearby San Francisco for a flight to Los Angeles...
...three guns, among several Miss Davis has purchased in recent years, were brought to the Marin courthouse by Jonathan Jackson, 17, who died in the ensuing shootout. For some time the boy had been a frequent companion of Angela, often traveling with her as she raised money and organized the legal defense for the "Soledad Three." The three are blacks accused of killing a guard in a Soledad, Calif., prison, whose case has been made a cause Célè by the black militant community. The youthful Jackson had more than an ideological interest in the Soledad Three...
...sweltering heat of Jackson last week, a county grand jury concluded its three-week investigation of that shootout by exonerating the patrol and indicting two unidentified participants in the disturbance. Though FBI reports had shown no evidence of sniping and many observers regarded the demonstrators as merely unruly, the grand jury declared that the troopers "had a right and were justified" in firing the 400-round fusillade that killed two black youths. Asserted the panel: "When people take the law into their own hands and engage in civil disorders and riots, they must expect to be injured or killed when...
...language might permit scrutiny of the traditionally privileged conversations between lawyers and clients, doctors and patients, or priests and penitents. Under another provision, policemen could enter private homes without knocking if they had reason to believe that a warning would allow suspects to destroy evidence or prepare for a shootout...