Word: shotguns
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Later, when he was in a hospital room being fed intravenously, police guards told him that they were going to cut the tubes. One pointed a loaded shotgun at his head and announced that he was going to kill him and report that he had tried to escape: then the policeman lowered his gun and said he wouldn't shoot Newton because he was going to die in the gas chamber anyway. It was a common practice for the police guards to kick the foot of the bed to jar Newton's wound open and to start it bleeding under...
...Illinois, a state trooper patrolling a predominantly black housing project was shot by a sniper. In San Francisco, a bomb blew up a patrol car as two policemen checked out a burglary report. Four cops sustained minor shotgun wounds in an apparent ambush staged by Mexican Americans in Riverside, Calif. In New York City, an officer investigating a report of gunfire at a Brooklyn yacht club was shot in the right arm; he was the city's fourth officer to be sniped at in less than a week, and a nightlong hunt through the surrounding swamps failed to yield...
...before he brushes his teeth. "Fear is something in your mind that has to be overcome," Messaros says. Boston is equally stoic: "Hell, I could die tomorrow at the movies." Still, both feel that their equipment-pistol, blackjack, nightstick, helmet-could be improved upon by putting a sawed-off shotgun in their car. No need to point it at anyone, they say-"just that you come out of the car, and it comes with...
...designed to force release of the Soledad Three, a way of "dealing with specific problems now"? Angela Davis carried the answer with her into hiding. Most of her friends presume her innocence, though they are troubled. But the circumstantial evidence kept accumulating last week. Police say she purchased a shotgun two days before it was used to murder Judge Harold J. Haley, as well as three other weapons used in the shootout. A day before the killings, she was reported seen in the yellow truck in which the judge was killed. Three hours after the gunfight, she bought an airplane...
...brokerage houses have failed or have been forced into shotgun mergers. Last week the big Dempsey-Te-geler & Co. was ordered into liquidation by the New York Stock Exchange. Exchange officials disclosed that nine other firms are so near failure that they have stopped or may soon be forced to stop doing business with the public. In addition to Dempsey-Tegeler, four are formally being liquidated: McDonnell & Co., Gregory & Sons, Baerwald & Deboer, and Amott, Baker & Co. The other five?Meyerson & Co., Fusz-Schmelzle & Co., Blair & Co., Orvis Bros. & Co., and Kleiner, Bell & Co. ?are headed for liquidation because...