Word: snipering
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...sniper's bullet, the machine-gun burst in the night, a bus full of farmers dynamited, the satchel of plastique, the grenade tossed into a crowd?all are surgically planned by the Viet Cong to specific ends. In the countryside, terrorism often aims to stamp out the peasants' sense of security, always tenuous at best. A few guerrillas firing a dozen shots near a lightly defended government village pose an agonizing problem for the local commander. If he calls for reinforcements, it is almost certain that no enemy will be found. If he does not, the villagers may begin...
...last year, Rifleman is now the leading crusader against gun controls. Halsey, a South Carolinian who was an editor of the Saturday Evening Post for 18 years, runs articles in every issue lauding the man with a gun. The July issue, which contains an admiring account of the military sniper throughout history, arrived in the mail just as snipers began shooting in the ghettos. Halsey has also expanded a regular feature called "The Armed Citizen," which reports the derring-do of shopkeepers and housewives who have gunned down intruders. "Of course, the column omits stories of innocent people...
...city, 23 of the deaths were under investigation for possible prosecution of police and Guards men on homicide charges. Among other tales of brutal reprisals, investigators learned, were those of a factory worker who was reportedly kicked and beaten to death after taking two bullets as a suspected sniper; a 19-year-old Job Corps trainee who was yanked off his milk truck, told to run, then shot dead when he did; a four-year-old girl killed when a tank commander sprayed her home's windows with machine-gun fire; and a man shot down for "carrying...
...Where's the Sniper?" Smashing gun butts and barrels into hapless suspects, the officers kept asking: "Where's the sniper?" One by one, the room's terrified occupants were ordered into adjoining rooms for more intensive interrogation. While no witness claimed to have seen the actual killings, survivors agree that at least two of the dead youths were taken away and that subsequently shots were heard. Later, the sprawled bodies of the three youths were found lying in blood from buckshot wounds. At week's end, two policemen were formally charged with first-degree murder. Also...
Detroit was a burned-out volcano, and although Milwaukee trembled, its authorities hammered down an iron lid that saved the city from massive hurt. Still, there was little peace in the nation's cities. From Providence, R.I., to Portland, Ore., communities large and small heard the sniper's staccato song, smelled the fire bomber's success, watched menacing crowds on the brink of becoming mindless mobs. The only consolation was that, compared with the agony of Newark and Detroit, last week's racial convulsions were more of a threat than a storm...