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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...method by which it was obtained. But Hanrahan's explanation, like the entire police account of the incident, was clouded by elisions and puzzling inconsistencies. Bobby Rush, Illinois Panther chief, seized on the statement to charge that the incident was not "a shootout, it was a shoot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Investigations: Inadmissible Evidence | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

...shoot man, little bird. The hunt has not opened yet. In your shade below is silence. So painful is the unknown...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Soviet Union: A Depot of Metaphors | 5/18/1970 | See Source »

National Guardsmen with live ammunition and orders to shoot if necessary stood by yesterday in Augusta. Ga., in the wake of racial violence that has left six black men dead...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Six Augusta Blacks Die in Racial Riots | 5/13/1970 | See Source »

...know, it is more unfortunate that all those guards were injured by young people attacking them and that it was necessary for those men to shoot to protect property...

Author: By Garrett Epps and Scott W. Jacobs, S | Title: Where Cambodia Is Still Studied Under Geography; Bob Jones Univ. | 5/12/1970 | See Source »

...guardsman's fate would not depend on whether the order to shoot was justified by threats to the troops' safety, or on whether his firing would contribute to the continuation of a criminal war in Southeast Asia (criminal by the standards of the Nuremberg trials, that is). Nor would it depend, in all probability, on whether the soldier was psychotic, mentally retarded, or hard-of-hearing...

Author: By David Blumenthal, | Title: Books Marching in Place | 5/11/1970 | See Source »

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