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...armed and dangerous, but her knockout potential is also aesthetic. Meet . the gulf war's first pinup girl: Jackie Guibord, 28, a statuesque mother of two who wields a shotgun and sports a trim pair of jeans in a current Wrangler advertisement. Operation Desert Storm's answer to Betty Grable is actually a Provo, Utah, police officer who moonlights as a model. Her unofficial fan club began when a few Utah reservists took copies of the ad to the gulf. Before long other servicemen started tearing the photo out of magazines and pinning it up in tents, bunkers and just...
...Vietnam, PTSD was often caused by the prolonged stress of trying to survive an ambush or a fire fight. Bill Ralph developed his case riding shotgun on fuel trucks engaged in night resupply missions. For seven of the 18 years he has lived in Hawaii, Ralph occupied an 8-ft. by 12-ft. hilltop shack. If a stranger approached, Ralph would slip into the jungle, his knife at the ready. "I didn't even know I was sick," he says. "I just thought I was a little different...
...suspects then "fired approximately three rounds, one of which struck the victim in the arm," the journal said. The robbers used a nickel-plated shotgun, according to police reports...
...Alves da Silva, 23, and his rancher father, Darly Alves da Silva, 54, went on trial in the Amazonian town of Xapuri last week for the murder of Francisco ("Chico") Mendes, the Brazilian rubber tapper and defender of the rain forests who became an environmental martyr after a single shotgun blast killed him in 1988. Asked by the judge if he "carried out" the murder, Darci answered, "I confirm...
...were the targets of one of Mendes' last empates, in March 1988. After the confrontation, Mendes, who had allegedly been threatened many times by the elder Da Silva, feared for his life and alerted the police. But on Dec. 22, 1988, Mendes was struck down by a single shotgun blast as he stepped out the back door of his home. His police bodyguards were inside playing dominoes. Mendes...