Word: sniper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...immediate assumption was that Colombo forces had taken their revenge. The war was on. Early on the day of Gallo's funeral, a Colombo lieutenant named Gennaro Ciprio left his restaurant in Brooklyn and walked toward his car. He stopped three bullets, apparently fired by a rooftop sniper, and died in a pool of blood on the sidewalk. Investigators say that Ciprio was probably killed because he was spying on the Colombos for the Gallos...
...Slaughter and other attorneys from the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights Under Law established in court that at least 200 shots were fired during the 29-second barrage. All 43 lawmen admitted that they had fired; only three claimed to have seen any sign of the third-floor sniper who supposedly prompted the fusillade. But although the dead and most of the wounded were on the ground, none of the patrolmen would admit having aimed below the third floor of the dormitory...
Londonderry remained quiet that night; it was said that the I.R.A. was ob serving a truce until the obsequies were finished. But the violence did not stop completely. In Belfast, a sniper killed a British sentry. A 100-lb. gelignite bomb exploded in a downtown department store, wounding nine civilians and two policemen. Two soldiers were slightly injured by sniper fire in the Catholic Andersonstown district. After the funeral it was business as usual for the terrorists and their sympathizers. In the Lower Falls Road district of Belfast, Catholics rioted for more than four hours and pelted army patrols...
Police toting submachine guns patrolled around Düsseldorfs courthouse last week, while a sharpshooter kept watch from a fourth-floor balcony and guards frisked everyone going inside the courtroom. The curtains were drawn to foil the aim of any potential sniper; in the dock, the defendant sat behind a bulletproof glass shield. Ordinarily, the charges would not have justified such stringent precautions, even though Karl-Heinz Ruhland, 33, had confessed to bank robbery, car theft, breaking into city halls and stealing passports. Authorities feared, however, that he might be rubbed out by his former associates before he could testify...
...hardest, ugliest jobs in the police department. Single-handedly he stops a bank robbery, and when everyone else fails, he talks down a suicide attempt. Harry goes on while his partners lie dead or maimed. So naturally, he leads the search for Scorpio. San Francisco's mysterious sniper-extortionist. And after frustrating set-backs and a trail of mutilated victims--one expects nothing less--Harry gets his chance with what has become his private devil...