Word: shootout
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Passersby assumed they had stumbled on the filming of an episode of Miami Vice: a gang of men, dodging around cars and trees as they fired guns at one another on a sunny, suburban Miami street. But the scene was all too real, a bloody shootout between seven FBI agents and the two robbery suspects they had cornered. In the end, two lawmen lay dead--the 28th and 29th agents killed in the line of duty in the FBI's 78-year history. The suspects, William Matix, 34, and Michael Platt, 32, were also slain. As investigators last week traced...
...farm foreclosures have increased, many farmers have come to view bankers as the enemy. In 1983 a Minnesota farmer and his son lured a bank president and a loan officer to their foreclosed ten-acre tract, ambushed and killed them. Last year a Nebraska farmer was killed in a shootout after firing at state troopers with a rifle. The conflict began earlier in the day when sheriff's deputies tried to serve him legal papers concerning $300,000 in overdue loans. This fall in Iowa two occasions were recorded in which farmers, carrying loaded guns in their trucks, thought about...
Tomorrow afternoon, the Crimson will showdown against Cornell (3-1-1 ECAC). The Lynah Rink shootout is the highlight of every year in Ithaca, N.Y., and the Crimson has to play its best if it hopes to tip the powerful Big Red in its own barn...
...wondered: Do farmers talk about such things before they ride their tractors down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington to complain that government cutbacks make it impossible for them to take their vacations in the Caribbean (or so our president says)? Would cowboys ever neglect a shootout at the O.K. Corral in order to debate the merits of seeing their reflection in lemon-scented, smoothly-polished table tops...
According to authorities, the Brotherhood of Silence preaches the violent overthrow of the Government and has links to other white-supremacist organizations. In addition to the two men arrested last week, five others are in jail awaiting trial and one was killed in a shootout with police, prompting U.S. Attorney Joseph Russoniello to say that the Brotherhood "seems to have been successfully neutered at this time." Yet two others are believed to be at large, and only a fraction of the money stolen has been recovered...