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...money was obviously the gang's motive, Caillol and his accomplices seemed to elude easy classification. Caillol, 36, the suspected ringleader, is the son of a prosperous furniture manufacturer and ran a branch of his father's business in Montpellier. Daniel Duchateau, 39, who died in the Shootout, was even more enigmatic. After serving a six-year term for armed robbery from 1966 to '72, he wrote a book about why he had become a criminal. A five-year army stint convinced him, wrote Duchateau, that money brings liberty. "It's nothing really, just little slips...
...murders; one of the victims was the chief inspector of the antiterrorist squad in Turin. Curcio was arrested in September of that year, tried and imprisoned, then sprung in a daring 1975 commando raid led by his wife. A few months later, Comrade Mara was killed in a police Shootout. In 1976 Curcio was recaptured in a Milan apartment...
...crowd crammed into the IAB expecting to witness another Saturday night shootout, but it was the Columbia Lions who came out with all barrels blazing--and when the lights dimmed they were picking lead out of the Crimson's liver...
...contest would have been a classic shootout for second place in the Ivies, a roof-raising barnburner between the 4-2 Lions--led by tough guards Alton Byrd and Ricky Free--and the 3-2 Crimson, led by Brian Banks and guard Glenn Fine...
...head coach Joe Bernal puts the whole thing into perspective though. "They've been the champs five years in a row," he said, "and they just won't fold overnight. They sense it's gonna be a shootout today...