Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Karachi, two armed men rode up to the Iraqi consulate general aboard a motorcycle. One of the two was bayoneted by a Pakistani policeman. The other, captured after a brief shootout, confessed that he had been sent from Beirut to murder Consul General Naji Zain Din and had picked up his weapon and instructions from Palestinians in Pakistan...
There are two fresh graves at St. Augustine's; they contain the bodies of victims of an army-guerrilla Shootout at the edge of the mission. Many neighboring white farmers have abruptly abandoned their properties. Nonetheless, Father Prosser is not only keeping St. Augustine's open but is even expanding with a $200,000 program designed to double pre-university enrollment. The need is there, he explains: "No matter what happens in the future, school buildings are going to be very necessary for whatever government comes." He admits that he does not know how much longer St. Augustine...
...special deputies-mostly retired policemen, private security guards and cronies of local politicians. Special deputies can carry guns and make arrests and usually work as guards in schools and businesses or as police auxiliaries in the suburbs. In March, after a drunken special deputy was killed in a shootout with state police, reporters for the Indianapolis Star started investigating. When Gilman refused to tell them his special deputies' names, the Star began referring to them as his "secret police." In response, Gilman revoked all the special deputies' powers. Said County Prosecutor James Kelley: "It was immature and childish...
...Golf Course in New Haven. Last year Princeton came away with the team title but coach Bob Donovan believes that after contending with Wollaston his squad will be in the proper frame of mind to tackle Yale's majestic 18. The individual title figures to boil down to a shootout between the Ivy "Big Three" of Vik, Yale's Peter Teravainen, and Princeton's Bruce Samaklis...
...money was obviously the gang's motive, Caillol and his accomplices seemed to elude easy classification. Caillol, 36, the suspected ringleader, is the son of a prosperous furniture manufacturer and ran a branch of his father's business in Montpellier. Daniel Duchateau, 39, who died in the Shootout, was even more enigmatic. After serving a six-year term for armed robbery from 1966 to '72, he wrote a book about why he had become a criminal. A five-year army stint convinced him, wrote Duchateau, that money brings liberty. "It's nothing really, just little slips...