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...OPEC, which could be considered the Sputnik of the '70s, threatens the rest of the world. The shotgun marriage of Government and industry, to develop alternative energy sources, has yet to be consummated; but history shows what can be accomplished if they join forces...
...first Espinoza denied knowing Harvey, but under questioning he said he had known him for more than a year and knew the other two Latins as well. They, he said, had showed him two loaded rifles. He knew one of the men as Umberto Camacho. Agents found a shotgun case and three rounds of live ammunition in refuse from the room rented by Camacho, who had checked out of the hotel on Saturday. When agents seized Harvey, Espinoza said, he had been standing in the crowd only ten feet away...
...subway thefts with violence have lately been committed after special police patrols knocked off work at 2 a.m. Fortnight ago, as Sliwa and two other Red Berets drove off six men trying to rape a woman on a Brooklyn elevated platform, Sliwa disarmed a man with a sawed-off shotgun by using a Kung Fu kick to the head. But he himself spun over the guardrail and fell 18 feet into a freight yard. He suffered only heavy bruises and strained muscles...
What astonishes me about the decision by the current Expos director to abolish the fiction-writing option is its wrong-headedness in going after the song-birds with a shotgun. I don't refer to the teachers, but to those students how come to the college with an ability to write and also a need--under proven, rigorous supervision--to try their voices at something other than "the expository essay...
...attackers burst in. A machine-gun round cut down an Iranian employee standing next to Kraus. The gunmen took the Marines' flak jackets, helmets, wallets, watches and shotguns. One attacker leveled a shotgun at Kraus. "I shuddered," he says. "I heard the blast," but that was all. Hit on his face and scalp, Kraus passed...