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...West Virginia, where battles have been especially fierce, nearly 300 strikers were arrested for blocking the road to a nonunion mine. Two employees at Hampden Coal were hit by shotgun pellets. Said a spokesman for A.T. Massey Coal: "There is a total state of chaos. The state ((of West Virginia)) is out of control." Mining-company executives have urged West Virginia Governor Gaston Caperton to call out the National Guard, which he has so far refused...
Tawanah Jean Griggs, the young woman on the cover, was sitting on a sofa in her mother's home in Bartlesville, Okla., when her 20-year-old cousin fired a shotgun into her chest on May 1. At 17, she thus became one of hundreds of gun victims killed in the first week of May. They were shot accidentally or in an impulsive moment of anger, killed by friends, wives or husbands; they took their own lives or came to a violent end in a street quarrel or drug dispute. What they have in common is that they...
...continue the family tradition. His political outspokenness got him thrown into jail four times, but each time he emerged with even greater popularity, until he became a symbol of the mounting opposition to the dictator. On Jan. 10, 1978, as he drove to work in his red Saab, two shotgun- wielding assassins blew him to bits. Says Jaime Chamorro, Pedro's brother and now business manager of La Prensa: "His death ignited the national insurrection against Somoza. It released 40 years of suppressed rage...
...preparing to rape her when her screams brought help. Last September a 15-year-old Houston boy raped and murdered a 66-year- old woman, then burglarized her home. In May a 15-year-old Detroit boy was charged with killing another teenager with a sawed-off shotgun, apparently in a dispute over a stolen bicycle. Ten months ago, a 16-year-old boy drove 150 miles from his home in Princeton, Ky., and shot to death a woman he did not know. The boy, who came to be known as "Little Rambo" to his schoolmates, told police that...
...battle against sin, a warrior is only as good as his freshest kill, and that is why Hurlbut is riding shotgun this gray Friday afternoon during an assault on a trafficker in lewd videos. At the house, tires screech, and officers leap out with drawn .45s. "If anything's going to go wrong, it's in the first two minutes," says Hurlbut, taking it all in from the Chrysler. Nothing does, but the raid nets only a few small-time video wholesalers. However, clues quickly lead deputies eight miles away to a cramped trailer that proves a cornucopia of hard...