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...that morning. As he emerged after a pleasant weekend stay at the Monterey home of U.S. Ambassador to Belgium Leonard Firestone, the security lineup was impressive: Secret Service agents, highway patrolmen, military police, county police and a special San Mateo County S.W.A.T. (Special Weapons and Tactics) sniper squad with rifles and camouflage gear. As the motorcade headed into town, every overpass was guarded by two officers with rifles at the ready. A security helicopter chopped overhead...
...stealing a television set, they discovered notes outlining a plot to assassinate Ford during his visit to Sacramento. Santa Barbara Detective Robert A. Zapata reported that the notes told how the two men had planned to break into an armory in San Francisco "and get guns, a sniper scope and dynamite...
...shoot down a witness who threatens to "blow the lid off" a rather sensitive government scandal. The exact nature of the disgrace is unspecified, but there is no mistaking Ventura's dedication. He rents a hotel room in the French town of Montpellier and starts unpacking his sniper gear from a specially rigged suit case lined with foam rubber...
...every point, the testimony was conflicting. Although every investigation had discredited the original Guard claim that a civilian sniper had opened fire first, one former student, Joy Bishop, testified that she saw a gunman shoot in the air just before the Guard volley. Other students standing beside her testified that they had seen nobody on the spot where she said she had seen the gunman. One student, Harry Montgomery, said a Guardsman identified as Sgt. Myron Pryor had fired first; Pryor denied it. Guardsman James Pierce, who had said in 1970 that Pryor had instructed the troops to shoot...
...Londonderry fracas was just one incident in an anniversary week that left eleven dead and 150 injured across Ulster. Among those killed was four-year-old Siobhan McCabe, felled by a sniper's bullet apparently intended for a British soldier. Another was Samuel Llewellyn, 29, a Protestant truck driver who was delivering a load of paperboard in the Catholic Falls Road area of Belfast to help patch up windows shattered in a bomb blast the previous day. Although Llewellyn was making the delivery at the request of a Catholic welfare organization, he was dragged from the truck...