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...SWAT team scrambled and moved out to O.J.'s Brentwood mansion in unmarked cars. They split into a sniper team with scopes, a negotiating team and a larger backup team that fanned out through the bushes and trees around the property, armed with stun grenades and automatic rifles. When Cowling drove up into the driveway, they could see O.J. in the backseat, holding a blue steel revolver pointed up against his own chin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: O.J. Simpson: End of the Run | 6/27/1994 | See Source »

...State Department issued a traveler's advisory warning American citizens to stay away from Guatemala, and the U.S. Peace Corps has ordered its more than 200 workers in the country back to the capital. Even there, the assassination April 1 of the president of the Constitutional Court and the sniper bullet that wounded a Congressman five days later have added to the instability. "Whoever is behind all this wants to provoke a state of emergency," says government investigator Claudio Porres. "They want us to return to a dark past when everything was resolved through a military coup." President Ramiro...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dangerous Rumors | 4/18/1994 | See Source »

...friendly clanging of the trams sounded like a hint of peace, a bit of normality now that a NATO ultimatum had silenced the Serbian siege guns. The streetcars must have carried the same symbolism to Serb soldiers staring down from the hills around the city: last week a sniper fired into one of the jammed cars and wounded a passenger, and 12 people were killed elsewhere in the city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hint of Spring in The Balkan Tangle | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

...roads is banned and so are commercial trucks, leaving the city still dependent on U.N. humanitarian shipments. Still, it does provide the first chance in almost two years for ordinary Sarajevans to leave the city and travel to other parts of the country. In spite of occasional sniper fire, they have already seized on the cease-fire's relative quiet to go out, shop, relax in parks and cafes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Hint of Spring in The Balkan Tangle | 3/28/1994 | See Source »

Pipo asks a visitor if a note and some cigarettes could be taken to someone still in Sarajevo. He confides that his friend is a Muslim and a sniper on the other side. "Would you kill him if you got him in your sights?" he is asked. "Why not?" he replies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dispatches: A Sniper's Tale | 3/14/1994 | See Source »

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