Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Greensboro Shootout The article about the Ku Klux Klan shootout [Nov. 12] makes Greensboro, N.C., sound like the most racially disturbed city in the South. It is correct that Greensboro has been the scene of many civil rights protests in the past, but our community has grown together, both blacks and whites, to become one of the best of cities to live...
...shootout on Nov. 3 was not an act of Greensboro citizens but of two sickminded organizations from outside our community. Why Greensboro was picked for such ill-considered actions by the Ku Klux Klan and the Communist Workers Viewpoint Organization is a question that everyone here would like answered...
...site of bitter racial conflict, dating back to sit-ins at lunch counters in the early 1960s and a riot in 1969 at a predominantly black local college that left one student dead. Nothing in Greensboro's past, however, came close to what happened last week: a Shootout between Ku Klux Klansmen and anti-Klan protesters in which four people were killed and nine were wounded. The city's mayor, Jim Melvin, called it "one of the most hideous acts in America...
...with Cha and his chief of staff, Kim Kae Won, who was known to be a friend of the intelligence chief but whose own role in the events remains mysterious. Thus because of his planned appointment with the KCIA boss, Chung happened to be in the building when the Shootout and killings took place...
...rival to a Friday afternoon conference at People's House, possibly intending to arrest him. But Amin came to the rendezvous armed with a pistol and the knowledge that Taraki's personal bodyguard, Major Sayed Daoud Taron, had changed masters. It is not known how the Shootout started, but when the smoke cleared an hour later, Amin was in control of the palace and the traitor Taron and dozens of others were dead. On Sunday the Revolutionary Council announced that Taraki had resigned on "health grounds" and reassigned his posts to Amin. At week...