Word: snipering
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...Soviets-and most other U.N. delegations, for that matter-the cause célèbre of the week was not China, but a cowardly sniper attack on a roomful of Russian children, apparently perpetrated by an adherent of the tinhorn terrorist Jewish Defense League. One evening at midweek, four rifle bullets crashed through an eleventh-floor bedroom window in the massive East Side Manhattan building that houses the large Soviet mission to the U.N. The shots were not heard by the 700 guests attending a lively reception on the lower floors, but they narrowly missed four embassy children...
...larger American lesson in him. Mccabe wound up, 27 days after he arrived in Viet Nam, sitting on an armored personnel carrier and calling down artillery to blow apart a Vietnamese village-"women, children, dogs, huts, rice, water buffalo, the whole thing"-because someone had fired a single sniper round from that general direction...
...opposing Fianna Fail factions chose him Prime Minister. While he was a legal clerk, he met his future wife, then a civil service secretary. They are childless, but his affection for children is deep; when he heard of the death of 18-month-old Angela Gallagher, hit by a sniper's ricochet in Belfast, he wept openly. A practicing Catholic, the blue-eyed, graying Lynch wears modish sideburns and hair long enough to curl around his collar...
...Geneva Convention. For three months after arriving in Viet Nam, just after the Tet offensive, Calley's company suffered heavy losses chasing an unseen enemy through mined rice paddies. Calley developed "a mild panic" that grew into hatred of the Vietnamese as Calley's patrols took repeated sniper and mortar fire from villages. The My Lai massacre followed at the height of this confusion and frustration, a sad confluence of bad training, bad leadership, bad intelligence and worse judgment...
...matter of how much varies as widely as how many. A former Miss Denmark who received $1,500 for one night's entertainment undoubtedly considered herself far removed from the black girls who charge $15 on the neon-lit streets of Boston's South End. One notable sniper at hypocrisy, George Bernard Shaw, was fascinated by this matter, and he is supposed to have asked a lady at dinner one night whether she would go to bed with him for ? 10,000. The lady hesitated but agreed, so Shaw asked if she would do the same...