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Metal weapons detectors at the entrance to the building were set off by shrapnel still embedded in the bodies of three of the Vietnam war veterans...

Author: By Travis P. Dungan, | Title: Gainesville Eight Get Hearing on FBI | 8/2/1973 | See Source »

...abandon the arms of the flowers of shrapnel and of the bloody marches of the war in Angola...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bouquet of Forget-Me-Nots | 3/8/1973 | See Source »

...could unhitch the buffalo. But suddenly four planes of the F-4H type flew over and immediately released their bombs. The bombs destroyed my village. All six houses burnt and a bomb fell about fifteen meters from where my father was ploughing, causing the blown up earth and the shrapnel to kill my father and the buffalo instantly... My sister and I ran over to him, but I saw that my father was already dead. I wept and then I carried him out of the field...

Author: By David R. Ignatins, | Title: Life Under an Air War | 1/19/1973 | See Source »

Initially, at least, authorities could not even determine whether the two men died of gunshot wounds or shrapnel from tear-gas canisters. Some 200 lawmen, including state policemen and Sheriff Al Amiss' deputies, had set up a U-shaped cordon in front of the administration building that about 200 students had occupied. The officers were armed with both shotguns and tear-gas canisters; but television film suggested that it was the students who tossed the first tear-gas bombs. Both Amiss and the state police claim that their men fired no shots, only tear gas, while students insisted that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RACES: A Southern Tragedy | 11/27/1972 | See Source »

Phillips noted that police labs are now trying to determine if shrapnel found in the bodies of the men could have exploded from such simulators...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Two Blacks Killed During La. Protest | 11/17/1972 | See Source »

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