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...weeks after he joined the 20-member Marine guard at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, he was just coming off duty when he heard the sound of gunfire. Over his VHF radio he heard someone shout, "They're attacking ... they're coming over the wall!" Grabbing a shotgun, he ran to the commissary, helped lead some U.S. and Iranian staffers to safety, then moved to a nearby restaurant. Bullets smashed the windows, and fists began banging on the locked door. Kraus radioed Ambassador William H. Sullivan. "I told him it's best that we surrender," he recalled...
...squad of invaders crashed into the embassy commissary and disarmed three Marine guards. Sergeant Kenneth Kraus, 22, was wounded in the forehead and eyes by pellets from his own shotgun, which had been taken by one of the leftists. At that, Kraus was lucky. "When they burst in, one of our Iranian employees stepped in front of me," said Kraus from his hospital bed. "He took a machine gun bullet in the chest. I guess he was hurt pretty...
Late last December, Robert Earl ("Bubba") May Jr., 14, was arrested with three companions for using a shotgun to rob two fireworks stands near the sleepy farm town of Brookhaven, Miss., and stealing a wallet. Two nights later Bubba and two of his accomplices robbed a grocery and beat up a saleswoman. Indicted on four counts of armed robbery, he was convicted only a week later. His sentence: 48 years in prison without chance of parole, the product of a plea bargain by his court-appointed attorney...
...against Coughlin eventually be dropped. Kirby accepted a state medical diagnosis that Coughlin was suffering at the time of the incident from "traumatic war neurosis" and thus could not be held criminally responsible for his action. Kirby and the judge agreed that the charge of owning a sawed-off shotgun would be dismissed after two years, provided Coughlin behaved and continued to respond to the drug abuse treatment that commenced soon after his arrest...
...Good medical practice is more economical. The burden is on the physician to order diagnostic tests with parsimony. A rifle, not a shotgun, approach should be used...