Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that literacy classes were initially held only in Spanish. Disgruntled Miskito leaders quickly became a major nuisance for the Sandinistas. Suspecting growing separatist sentiments among them, Sandinista forces last year arrested 33 Indian leaders, and shortly thereafter four government soldiers and four Miskitos were killed during a Shootout at a Moravian church in Prinzapolka. One of those arrested was Steadman Fagoth Miiller, 27, a militant young Miskito leader feared by the Sandinistas. On his release in May, he quickly fled to Honduras, where he unambiguously declared himself in opposition to the Managua government...
...Like a shootout in a cowboy movie, only it wasn 't a movie
...blow in the hallway. All but Ciucci and Frascella, whose father is a respected Padua doctor, were well known to antiterrorist specialists. Indeed, Savasta and Libera were recently convicted in a Cagliari court and sentenced to prison in absentia for several bank robberies and their involvement in a 1980 Shootout with police. In the apartment, police found large numbers of Red Brigades documents and the two slogan-filled posters that Dozier was forced to hold up for photos released during his captivity. The Red Brigades flag that Dozier stood before in the photos hung in the living room. Also discovered...
With the Garden filled close to capacity, the Eagles and Huskies played a fast-skating, hard-hitting shootout, and goalies Bob O'Conner of B.C. and Mark Davidner of Northeastern responded with dozens of spectacular saves. Eagle winger Chris Delaney put an end to the excitement 55 seconds into overtime, lifting the puck over a supine Davidner after the Husky netminder had made two tough saves...
...political terrorism, from both the Red Brigades of the left and the neo-Fascists of the right. Partly as a result of improving police intelligence, acts of violence tapered off this autumn, but there were still 753 incidents in the first ten months of the year. In a Shootout on a Rome street two weeks ago, two policemen were seriously wounded and a right-wing terrorist, Neo-Fascist Alessandro Alibrandi, was killed. Next day, in retaliation, a member of the national police was shot to death...