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...owners, especially wealthy residents of exclusive beachfront communities, are becoming increasingly militant about the invasion of beachgoers. In Maine's high-priced coastal enclaves, property owners, many of them from out of state, have built fences, thrown rocks, towed cars and on at least one occasion brandished a shotgun to keep clammers, fishermen and would-be sunbathers off their land. On the Massachusetts island of Martha's Vineyard, a summer retreat for some of the East Coast's most prominent lawyers and businessmen, homeowners have begun hiring private guards to confine outsiders to relatively crowded stretches...
...textile factory and home of Ibrahim Ansari, 50, a prosperous Muslim industrialist. A Hindu mob brandishing knives, fire bombs and cans of kerosene descended on the compound. From their barricaded living room, Ansari and his son managed to hold off the attackers with a revolver and a shotgun until police finally arrived. But by that time 20 people had been massacred...
...Civil Rights Act of 1964, which prohibits discrimination in employment by firms with more than 15 employees. Atlanta Federal District Judge Newell Edenfield threw out Hishon's suit in 1980, saying that "to coerce a mismatched or unwanted partnership too closely resembles . . . the enforcement of shotgun weddings." But no one on the Supreme Court was impressed by King & Spalding's arguments, including its claim that its partnership practices were protected by the constitutional right to free association. To the extent that the opportunity to become a partner is a "benefit" of employment, it is covered by Title...
...search of the embassy had begun a day earlier in an atmosphere of extreme caution. Fearful that the departing Libyans had left time bombs or booby traps behind, police used a remote-controlled shotgun to blast open a rear door of the building. Searchers crawled through the Victorian sewers beneath the square to make sure that the Libyans had not disposed of gelignite they were thought to possess by flushing it down a toilet. By nightfall, all 70 rooms in the embassy had been examined and no explosives found. Detectives speculated that the murder weapon and any unused ammunition...
Perhaps the most emotional issue involving Arnett is his unyielding stand on the fatal ingestion by waterfowl of spent lead shotgun pellets that hunters scatter in marshlands. Hair, a wildlife biologist, and other environmentalists say that the lead-shot toll may be as high as 4 million ducks annually. They contend that the deaths could be avoided by switching to steel pellets. Arnett's answer: "It's not that easy." Accepting the argument of many hunters that the lighter steel pellets have less stopping power and that consequently more ducks would be injured, he has cut back...