Word: sniper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During World War II the man whom the cops call "the Big Rock" won two Bronze Stars as an infantry sergeant in the Pacific. As a policeman, Rochford once walked into a house in pursuit of a sniper who had killed two cops-and he walked out with his man. But his record is not without blemish: he was overall commander during the brutal police clashes with demonstrators at the 1968 Democratic Convention, when his men got out of control. Rochford was also in charge of the police who fired a volley of shots-wounding one youth-in a riot...
...Sniper Shots. Though many independents stayed home or picketed peacefully, the week leading up to the settlement exploded in violence as the more mindless owner-drivers tried to sweep the highways clear of trucks by intimidating nonstriking truckers. One driver, Claudie Nix, 50, was fatally shot in his moving truck near Bridgeville, Del.; earlier, another driver was killed when a large rock was thrown at his windshield and his truck crashed. Other truckers have been hospitalized with gunshot wounds; the most recent victim was Lawrence Huff, 48, who was wounded in the stomach by a sniper as he drove...
...published in Paris, Objectif de Gaulle, there were at least 31 serious plots against the general's life, and dozens of others that never got beyond the talking stage. Indeed, even as the would-be killers of Petit-Clamart went on trial for their lives, police averted a sniper's attempt to shoot De Gaulle with a telescopically fitted carbine while the President was on an inspection tour of Paris' Ecole Militaire...
Carter said he was walking down a street in Santiago one day and police appeared on both sides of him and began to bombard a building where a sniper was hiding...
...Belfast, where gun battles once raged through the streets, there are now only occasional rounds of sniper fire. Army deaths are down to one a month, compared with 20 a month a year ago. Military units have occupied such rebel strongholds as the Ballymurphy and Andersons town districts of Belfast...