Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Thieu took no chances on the outcome of this week's one-man presidential election. To ensure that the voting would be undisturbed by demonstrators or the Viet Cong, he ordered soldiers, police and armed recruits of the Popular Self-Defense Force to patrol the streets and shoot to kill if necessary. As voters went to the polls, whole blocks of Saigon were barricaded or strung with barbed wire. Thieu also refrained from setting his sights too high; he declared that an even 50% of the vote would give him sufficient mandate for another four-year term...
...were to shoot, said one official, "only to prevent death or injury to one of our own or to one of the hostages." Two state helicopters took off and circled the prison to obtain in formation on the location of inmates and hostages in D yard...
...troopers dropped into the clouded compound, hostage blurred with prisoner. Some rescuers tried to reach the captive guards and pull them to safety. Others headed unresisting inmates toward the secure cell blocks. But there was an abundance of shooting. "We piled through and raced past Times Square," recalled one police sergeant. "The ones that resisted?throwing spears and Molotov cocktails?were cut down. We caught some men with arms extended to throw weapons. Anybody that resisted was killed." Claimed one officer: "They came at us like a banzai charge, waving knives and spears. Those we had to shoot...
...passions and factionalism of Irish politics compel him to perform a nonstop tightrope act between moderates and militants; he is working for a peaceful solution to the ageless "Irish question" while trying to avoid an outright collision with the Irish Republican Army, whose most extreme faction is trying to shoot its way to a reunification of Ireland, north and south...
From his childhood years. Skinner was mechanically inclined. He built roller-skate scooters, steerable wagons, rafts, water pistols from lengths of bamboo, and "from a discarded water boiler a steam cannon with which I could shoot plugs of potato and carrot over the houses of our neighbors." He also devised a flotation system to separate green from ripe elderberries, which he used to sell from door to door. Although his attempts to build a glider and a perpetual motion machine ended in failure, his innovative tinkering was to pay off handsomely in the laboratory in later years...