Word: snipering
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...headquarters of Advance Mortgage Corp. The publishing firm of R. I. Polk and the Michigan Automobile Club are about to quit the city. Circus World is moving its toy warehouse from the fringe of the ghetto to Royal Oak to escape break-ins (80 in six months), fire bombs, sniper bullets, and what President Sidney Rubin calls "almost continual stoning." Laments Rubin: "We had to put our crews on 24-hour shifts to protect the property. No private security patrol would take us as a client. We feared for the safety of our employees...
...loudspeakers to leave; all those remaining were presumed to be enemies and subject to attack in "free-fire" zones. Air raids, artillery shelling and chemical crop destruction ensued. There followed search-and-destroy infantry sweeps, including gunship bombing and "Zippo" burning of villages from which troops had received sniper fire...
Major Juan Mereado, the commander of the riot squad, and Sgt. Miguel Rosario were shot as riot police surrounded the university student center. A lieutenant of the riot squad said that the shots came from a sniper hidden behind a statue in front of the building. Jacinto Guiterrez, R. O. T. C. sergeant, was also killed...
Dance now, says Feiffer, pay the piper later. It is a terrible price. Patsy is murdered in Alfred's arms by an anonymous sniper, and a grisly, incoherent tale of urban warfare ensues. Doors are padlocked, windows are shuttered, rifles are broken out. A paranoid detective (Alan Arkin) tries to solve Patsy's murder -and 344 other unsolved killings -amid drumfire volleys of sniper fire. Alfred lapses into catatonia, reviving just in time to command a witless, meaningless shooting spree...
...proved it by digging his way to more than 1,500 archaeological finds in Transjordan and the Negev (TIME cover, Dec. 13, 1963); in Cincinnati. Dr. Glueck was called both "the scholar with a shovel" and "the rabbi with a rifle" because of his fearless exploring in the sniper-infested desert of strife-torn Israel...