Word: snipering
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...open fire on the school. The firefight lasted only twelve minutes, but as Gur said later, "they were the longest minutes of my life." Israeli soldiers under a barrage of fire managed to reach the explosives and neutralize them. One of the three Palestinians was immediately killed by sniper fire. Another was wounded, but was still able to toss grenades and fire his automatic weapon pointblank at the screaming students...
...planes had been bombing Cambodia for over a year. But some Kent State students got angry enough to burn down their ROTC building, anyway. The next day, about 20 National Guardsmen marching up a hill away from an antiwar demonstration wheeled and fired at the crowds. They said a sniper had started it, but no one else ever found any evidence of that, and an FBI report later found that the Guard's claim "that their lives were endangered by the students was fabricated subsequent to the event...
...receiving threatening letters. "Remember," said one, "sooner or later-all." Last March Hospital Guard David Glennon, 45, a Catholic cousin of Mrs. Hamilton, was found shot in the head. On New Year's Day, another Catholic cousin, John Whyte, 24, a laundry presser, was shot dead by a sniper. Lily Hamilton was saying good night to her brother, Noel McCartan, 26, a laborer, when a gunman fired two quick bursts and Noel fell dying in front...
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...