Word: snipering
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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...
...robbers movies. The French Connection is by no means an "anti-police" movie; it develops an admirably accurate perspective on the harshness of detective work--the long late hours waiting on winter streetcorners between every small arrest, and the very real threat of becoming the victim of a sniper, one of the occupational hazards of wearing a blue uniform in more than one American city. Working conditions like these explain some of the jaundiced outlook and enforced brutishness that are the psychological precursors to a lot of police brutality...
...just after midnight on May 22, 1970, when St. Paul police headquarters got an anonymous call asking help for a woman about to give birth. Two policemen sped to the scene but found only a darkened house. While one policeman went round to a back door, a sniper suddenly opened fire from across the street. The second policeman fell mortally wounded...