Word: snipering
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...past three years, the tentative truce could of course easily be broken. Just how easily was shown at week's end. Three days before the ceasefire, three British soldiers were killed when their Jeep ran over a land mine, and a Catholic youth was shot dead by a sniper in Belfast...
...break-in at the Democrats' headquarters in Washington didn't see the front page except for a slugline "Dems Quarters Break-In" in the table of contents. Wire copy dominated news space, and there was little investigative material outside of trying to track down, no less, the Route 2 sniper. And the editors still love the Record dialect in headlines: "U.S. Confuses Red Radar, Cripples Red Air Defense." Not to mention the non-sequiturs like "List 29 Americans Dead in British Jet Crash" or "Hub Tolls Grief for 9 Firemen...
...sorry episode, Britain's Lord Chief Justice Lord Widgery blamed the Catholic civil rights demonstrators for creating a "highly dangerous situation" with their illegal march, and some of the troops for action that "bordered on the reckless." But he judged that the first shot had come from a sniper and, on evidence from laboratory tests, that at least five of the dead had either fired weapons or been near someone who had done so, although no firearms were found on any of the bodies. Lord Widgery also ruled that at least four of the victims had been shot "without...
...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...