Word: shootout
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...world that thought itself accustomed to horror, it was yet another notch on an ever-rising scale of grotesquerie. The murders in Munich last week-preceded by 20 hours of high drama and precipitated by a horrendously bungled police shootout -gripped most of the world in attentive thrall. Because the drama was carried live on television, the suspense involved everyone, evoking memories of similarly intensely emotional events and a train of other murders that seemed to begin that day in Dallas in 1963. This time the final monstrous twist was that the killings were in Munich, the original spawning ground...
...week, witnessed by TIME'S Rome Bureau Chief James Bell,* marked the latest setback for Cleaver in his rapidly worsening relations with his Algerian hosts. Cleaver had been welcomed as a revolutionary hero in 1969, after jumping bail and evading arrest on charges arising from a 1968 Panther shootout in Oakland, Calif. The government of President Houari Boumedienne set him up in a white stucco villa in the diplomatic suburb of El Biar and granted him an allowance of $500 a month. Cleaver adorned the villa with two brass plaques, each engraved with a leaping black panther. The inscription...
...International Airport. Two agents, posing as relief pilots, boarded through the side door from a forklift truck, while others stormed up the rear gangway. Sibley, wounded in the shoulder and leg, was taken to the hospital. When it was announced that no one else had been injured in the shootout, the crowd of observers broke into applause...
...delivered to them at San Francisco International airport and ordered the pilot to point a course for Siberia. The plane taxied to the isolated tip of Runway 19R, where it was finally stormed by FBI agents disguised as crewmen. The agents gunned down both hijackers, but during the Shootout, one passenger, E.H. Stanley Carter, 66, of Montreal, was also killed and two others were wounded...
...verified by prison officials who did not get a warrant before checking her typewriter; the defense objected and lost, but it will again charge an invasion of privacy if an appeal becomes necessary. Even more complications arise from the fact that the diary was written eleven months after the Shootout, when Miss Davis was already in jail. The jury might well forget that the diary's strong words are not necessarily a reflection of her feelings just before the kidnaping. The key question, therefore, is whether the diary's relevance outweighs its prejudicial effect...