Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...brother had died in a wild shootout while trying to kidnap hostages from the Marin County courthouse, presumably in order to bargain for Jackson's free dom. Davis had been circumstantially tied to the episode...
...major terrorist group, the leftist Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (E.R.P.). The other large guerrilla network is the Montoneros, who are also leftists with Peronist sympathies; most of their top leaders have been killed or captured, but they can still launch spectacular bombings, kidnapings and murders. One Shootout last week took place at Buenos Aires' evening rush hour, near the Supreme Court building. Says one military expert: "The guerrillas are not as strong, but they will be dangerous for some time to come...
There was no way to tell if the meeting would be a sitdown or a shootout when the group assembled at 8:10 p.m. in the lobby of the B'nai B'rith Building. With the ambassadors were Chiefs Cullinane and Rabe, and the police commander, Joseph O'Brien, who had investigated the murder of Khaalis' children and was trusted by Khaalis...
...Culiacan, the capital of Sinaloa state, mainly because they are among the people who can afford expensive American cars with four-wheel drive to make it through the Sierra Madre Occidental for their treasure. The bosses dominate the local culture to such an extent that after a recent mountain shootout in which one soldier and twelve civilians were killed, local chiefs called in friendly newsmen to report the incident as a case of government brutality inflicted upon defenseless civilians. For printing the story, the reporters received about $450 apiece...
Last week's executions obviously have not solved the power struggle or its implication for Ethiopia, and the African nations that surround it are becoming increasingly edgy. Before long, onlookers predict, there is bound to be another Shootout in the fight for control of the Dergue. How many members will be left after that confrontation is anyone's guess...