Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...announcements crackling over Radio Ethiopia last week were terse -and chilling. A mid-morning Shootout had taken place at the columned palace, once the residence of Emperor Haile Selassie and since 1974 occupied by the Dergue, the committee of army officers that overthrew the legendary lion. The shooting was shortly followed by an announcement of the execution of Brigadier General Teferi Benti, 55, Ethiopia's chief of state, and eight of his supporters in the Dergue. Significantly, the broadcasts took pains to mention that the two most powerful members of the Dergue, Lieut. Colonel Mengistu Haile Mariam and Lieut...
...Traveling under the nom de guerre Sa'ad ad-Din Wali, he spent several weeks in Munich, securing and stashing guns and scouting the Israeli quarters in the Olympic Village. It is not clear whether he remained in the city for the attack on the village and the Shootout at a military airbase near Munich...
...emotional clashes almost immediately erupted between the defense and Judge Mark Brandler, 66. On occasion Harris lost his temper and once cursed Brandler. A bitter defense disappointment came when Brandler refused to bar admission of a tape sent to an L.A. radio station on which Harris talked about the shootout; both defense and prosecution experts had testified that the tape could have been altered...
...prison breakout attempt that left Black Militant Convict George Jackson dead, along with three guards and two inmate trusties. Their trial may well mark the final effort to exorcize the specter of Jackson from the Marin courthouse. In 1970 the same building was the scene of the kidnap-shootout that Jackson's brother Jonathan hoped would force George's release from San Quentin. Instead, Jonathan, Judge Harold Haley and two prisoners were killed. Now the question facing a seven-woman, five-man jury is whether the six San Quentin defendants conspired to launch the 1971 break...
Once he and his new friends launch themselves on their mission proper, it turns out to be well staged and photographed, the beauty of the gliders aloft or the suspenseful silence of their descent on the wicked ones is impossible to deny. The concluding shootout, in which the police and the army bumble up just in time to help, is also nicely handled, bloodshed and death being kept to a minimum instead of being dwelt upon in the modish manner...