Word: snipering
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...shirt. "Here is where the bullet came in," he said, pointing to a small pink scar on his right side. "That is where it went out. These scars are where they had the tubes. This is where they made the incision." The wounds, of course, came from the sniper's fire that killed lohn F. Kennedy in Dallas...
...last, Chiari took to the radio pleading for order and telling Panamanians not to listen "to demagogic incitement by certain agitators." He contacted General O'Meara, asking him to suspend the U.S. anti-sniper fire, promising that Panamanian troops would deal with the snipers. Three U.S. G.I.s had already been killed, 85 wounded; the Panamanians claimed about 300 casualties, including 20 dead-and blamed the U.S. for them...
Private Yalu. The helicopter work requires steady nerves. One armed Huey escorting a supply chopper at an outpost on the Plain of Reeds west of Saigon attacked a machine-gun nest that had opened fire. Just before one rocket was dropped, it was apparently struck by a sniper's bullet and blew up, shattering the plane's Plexiglas windows; the gunner and the crew chief suffered superficial but bloody face wounds. The dialogue over the intercom betrayed no panic: "Was a rocket blew up, wasn't it?" "It was somethin'." "You O.K., O'Shea?" "Roger...
...fact, the report will contain only one real surprise: a heavy hint that Oswald was the sniper who tried to put a bullet into former General Edwin Walker, a right-winging malcontent, in his Dallas home last April 10. Investigators have uncovered evidence in Oswald's own handwriting that links him to the attempt on Walker. Moreover, Oswald's Russian wife, Marina, recalled that on the night of April 10, Oswald rushed into their apartment, excitedly told her he had just tried to kill Walker. When she asked why, Oswald vaguely replied that it was because...
...bombs exploded around the city; at one point a sniper fired from a building, killing one man and wounding his wife. The troops quickly flushed him out, and the balloting went on. By nightfall 3 million Venezuelans, more than 90% of the electorate, had gone to the polls to choose a new President to take over next March from Romulo Betancourt, who is constitutionally barred from succeeding himself...