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...This has been a true victory, a people's victory-not only my release but the abolition of capital punishment." Then she went back to preparing for her trial on murder, kidnaping and conspiracy charges for allegedly providing four guns used in the August 1970 Marin County courthouse shootout in which a judge, two convicts and an accomplice were killed...
...Minister John Lynch, who decried the Derry killings as an "unprovoked attack on unarmed civilians." Just last month Lynch started a crackdown on I.R.A. gunmen who have been making raids across the border from hideouts in the Irish Republic. Two weeks ago, Eire police arrested seven gunmen after a shootout between the Provos and a British army patrol near the Ulster border at Dungooley. Faced with rising popular support for the I.R.A. in the aftermath of Bloody Sunday, Lynch will find it very difficult to continue his antiterrorist campaign. Instead, he recalled his ambassador to Britain for consultations, and dispatched...
...Pepe meanwhile was fighting with his own guards, who were trying to wrestle a submachine gun away from him in order to keep him from getting hurt in any shootout. Even though Figueres did not get to fire a single shot, he was pleased with his performance...
...fight "news management, news manipulation and assaults on the integrity of the working press." Its favorite subject is the generally uncritical attitude of Chicago's papers toward the political machine of Mayor Richard Daley. When Black Panthers Fred Hampton and Mark Clark were killed in a Chicago shootout two years ago, the dailies at first did not question the official version: that the Panthers fired first and brought the fatal fusillade on themselves. But the Review devoted a spe- cial 16-page issue to the incident and raised many doubts, which now seem amply justified; last summer a grand...
...Virtuoso Shootout. Bogdanovich labored for almost six months on Gorman's gritty motorcycle flick The Wild Angels, rewriting the script, scouting locations, casting ("Peter Fonda was sort of my idea"). Gorman, impressed with both Bogdanovich's energy and his results, agreed to put up the money for his first feature. There were a couple of strings. Bogdanovich had to use Boris Karloff, who owed producer Gorman two days' work on an old contract, and a certain amount of unused footage from an old Gorman opus entitled The Terror. The finished film, Targets, contained a virtuoso Shootout scene...