Word: shots
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Meanwhile the memory of Jan Masaryk still haunted Czechoslovakia. Persistent rumors whispered that Masaryk had been murdered. In Washington, Juray Slavik, former Czech ambassador to the U.S., said that Masaryk had been bludgeoned to death (after he had shot two of his assailants) and that after death his body had been dumped from his study window. Snapped Evzen Erban, Czech Minister of Social Welfare: "Fairy tales . . . Hollywood yarns...
...Main Street store and helped themselves to cheese. "In future we'll take what we want without paying." In rural Burghersdorp a pro-Malan voter had got so excited over the election returns on his radio that he ran out firing his rifle in the air, accidentally shot down his antenna. A Smuts supporter kicked his radio to smithereens and had to be given sedatives by the doctor...
Last year the government tried to pry Chen out of Shantung. It launched a big and costly offensive that plunged across Shantung to the seaport of Chefoo. Strafing Nationalist planes shot up his staff car, wounded Chen. His men were again driven into mountain hideouts...
...killing at Esperanza followed an incident at Zacatelco in nearby Tlaxcala state. There, Bishop Ruesga told newsmen, the Catholic mayor had told local citizens to quit baiting Evangelistas. On the street a priest upbraided the mayor and got a rough answer. Someone in the gathering crowd pulled a gun, shot the mayor. By the time pistols were empty the mayor was dead, four Catholics and three Evangelistas had been wounded...
Elsewhere in Mexico, persecution of Evangelistas took other forms. In Mexico City, hooligans in an automobile shot the glass out of the electric cross on the roof of Bishop Ruesga's own Iglesia de Dios. In coffee-growing Chiapas, Evangelistas who protested the killing of one of their members were jailed while mobs sacked and burned their homes...