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...Elmer that the other is the legally blastable species. In the midst of an argument, Daffy encounters some pronoun trouble and tells Elmer, "I demand that you shoot me now!" Daffy turns to Bugs, sticks his tongue out in "nyah" fashion and promptly gets both barrels of Elmer's shotgun. When the smoke clears, Daffy's beak is arranged around his left ear, with the tongue still protruding. Daffy deftly pushes the tongue back into the beak (to a cork-popping sound effect), replaces the mandible, stalks over to Bugs and / mutters, "Let's run through that again." Bugs' cunning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: For Heaven's Sake! Grown Men! | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...brush fire out of control, the violence that has racked South Africa for the past two months last week engulfed areas that had previously been relatively untouched. Outside Cape Town, police and soldiers brutally smashed an effort by antiapartheid forces to hold a mass protest march. The police used shotguns, rubber bullets, whips and tear gas, and were assaulted in turn by rocks, bottles and homemade gasoline bombs. Angry mobs blocked main highways with barricades of burning tires, mattresses and even barbed wire. At least 32 people were killed in the week's disturbances, most of them by police shotgun...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: South Africa Turmoil in the Streets | 9/9/1985 | See Source »

...Debbie Aiken, then a talk-show host for a Norfolk radio station, into letting him discuss the Ku Klux Klan on her program. He claimed to be the Klan's state organizer. "He drove up to the station in a pickup truck with bodyguards," she recalls. One carried a shotgun. "Walker told me he had to be protected, that he feared for his life at all times. It was more than a little strange." After Barbara Walker's tip, the FBI secured court permits to tap Walker's telephones. On May 19, after hearing him talk about a special trip...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Very Serious Losses | 6/17/1985 | See Source »

...resulted in the convictions of ten policemen for perjury. Last week in San Juan, U.S. District Court Judge Carmen C. Cerezo sentenced former Police Agent Luis Reveron Martinez to the maximum 25 years. A witness has accused Reveron Martinez of killing one of the independentistas with a twelve- gauge shotgun as the victim knelt before him. Earlier three other policemen had each received 20-to 30-year prison sentences...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Puerto Rico: Sending Police to Jail | 6/3/1985 | See Source »

Atimes, life for the two officers has been appalling. Like the old woman, felled by a heart attack, who had been partially eaten by her cats before her neighbors noticed the smell. Like the man who had tied a shotgun to his head, stuck the barrel in his mouth, and pulled the trigger...

Author: By Adam H. Gorfain and Benjamin N. Smith, S | Title: A Ride on the Wild Side | 4/18/1985 | See Source »

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