Word: shoots
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Just a month ago, the coastal city of Danang was the scene of astonishing chaos and misery, crammed with hundreds of thousands of desperate refugees and soldiers trying to shoot their way onto the planes and boats leaving for safe havens farther south. But according to a group of French journalists, who flew there from Hanoi, the city is now calm and orderly as its transformation under a Communist government begins...
...scheduled to stand trial May 21 in Stuttgart on charges of murder and grand larceny. The raiders directed that the 26 prisoners be taken to Frankfurt airport, given $20,000 apiece, and flown in a Lufthansa 707 jetliner to an unspecified foreign country. Otherwise, they added, they would shoot one hostage every hour and finally would blow up the embassy with...
...terrorists had sealed themselves off with their hostages on the top floor, staff members and embassy visitors on the lower floors quickly escaped, some on fire ladders. Using a house phone, the terrorists then ordered Swedish police to leave the lower floors of the building, and threatened to shoot a hostage unless they obeyed. The police stalled, hoping to establish personal contact-and the terrorists shot Lieut. Colonel von Mirbach fatally...
...Arab countries rose 93%, France's 60%, Britain's 53% and West Germany's 85%. Total sales from Western Europe to all Arab nations, plus Iran, rose to an estimated minimum of $16 billion in 1974 from $10.6 billion in 1973, and seems sure to shoot up even more this year...
...return for this, many of them live in fear of joblessness. In return for this, salaries, for some once reasonably adequate, are becoming less and less and less so by inflation, a "public enemy" no one seems able to shoot down. In return for this, an American working family can be destroyed, penalized for years by the sickness of one of its members: a child becomes ill and the parents have to face thousands of dollars worth of medical expense, when at best they can meet the cost of their groceries. What can the consequences be? Thomas Jefferson wrote, "Indeed...