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...explosives, a manual on making bombs and hand-drawn floor plans of six New York City police stations. In a Bronx apartment, state and federal investigators found a similar arsenal and diagrams, plus a newspaper dated one day after the robbery-indicating that someone had been there since the shootout. Both apartments were vacant when raided, but had been rented in the name of Nina Lewis, an alias police believe is being used by Marilyn Jean Buck, 34, another radical on the lam. Buck is known to have been a gunrunner for the B.L.A. and is believed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bullets from the Underground | 11/2/1981 | See Source »

...women booters' string of games against nationally ranked opponents continues today with a shootout on the UMass green. The game against the Minutemen--ranked sixth in the country--comes on the heels of contests against number three UConn and number four Princeton for the Crimson, which holds down the number ten spot in the most recent coaches' poll...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Women Booters Take Aim at UMass | 10/27/1981 | See Source »

...urban shootout was the latest escalation in the well-organized Mujahedin's struggle to topple Khomeini. It demonstrated that the guerrillas have retained their command structure, organizational efficiency and firepower despite the purges by the embattled regime. Including the 195 people shot last week, 2,150 opponents of the government have been executed since deposed President Abolhassan Banisadr and Mujahedin Leader Massoud Rajavi escaped to France in July. This kind of bloodbath, Rajavi declared last week, will not deter his guerrillas. Said he: "The Resistance is prepared to pay the heaviest price possible to liberate Iran from the shackles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Iran: Bloodshed in the Streets Again | 10/12/1981 | See Source »

...Shootout with the Libyans [Aug. 31] should remind us that the "shores of Tripoli" are already memorialized in the Marine Corps Hymn, dating from an earlier period when the U.S. fought to keep open the waters of the Mediterranean. With Reagan as President, the message goes out: "America is back!" It will be heard and understood both by our friends and by potential enemies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Sep. 21, 1981 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

...founder of the Peace People in Northern Ireland shared in the 1976 Nobel Peace Prize; and Jack Maguire, 37, auto mechanic and widower of the bride's sister, Anne Maguire, who inspired the movement after three of her children were killed by a car involved in a shootout between British troops and an Irish Republican Army guerrilla; she for the first time, he for the second; in Rome...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones: Sep. 21, 1981 | 9/21/1981 | See Source »

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