Word: snipering
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...spirit." The comparison, while somewhat funny, is inherently absurd and indeed inappropriate. The Israeli Defense Forces are a military organization. They probably want to build a sense of comaraderie in their ranks because they just might all die together in the defense of their nation. However, death by a sniper's bullet isn't something that I have on my mind when I attend lectures. Lecture halls aren't trenches and the professor isn't our platoon commander leading us in a campaign against subject material. I have yet to hear a Gov professor throw on a helmet and flak...
Serb artillery shoots from the slopes on one side of the city, and Muslim shoots from the other. Sometimes they throw shells at each other. Sometimes they drop them into town. The big shells arrive with a crisp, concussive WHUMP! But sniper fire you hear only at the shooting end -- an irregular background noise of flat, hard pops. You look up wildly at the hills and imagine the snipers squinting through cross hairs. You wonder what they may be able to see through the mist. You pause to decode the physics: the sound you hear has been taking its time...
...March, two of his classmates at Jenner Elementary School in Chicago's notorious Cabrini-Green housing project had been slain, and Dantrell was well experienced in running for cover at the first sound of gunfire. But he never heard the shot that killed him on Oct. 13, when a sniper opened fire from a 10th-floor window as Dantrell walked to school with his mother. The rest of Chicago did, and Dantrell's death sparked yet another agonizing debate over how to stop the inner-city slaughter...
Although the U.N. Security Council has approved the use of force to protect aid shipments to Bosnia-Herzegovina, no one has yet figured out precisely how to do it. U.N. forces in Sarajevo are caught in the middle -- a Ukrainian soldier was killed by a sniper last week -- and the major powers are reluctant to let their troops get involved...
...planes buzzed two American warships in the Adriatic. Though no shots were fired, three of the planes turned back only after American radar had locked on to them -- a preliminary step to shooting. In Sarajevo a Canadian member of the United Nations peacekeeping force exchanged fire with a Serbian sniper, who was killed. Some Western officers fear that similar incidents could trigger a kind of unplanned, back-door military intervention. But the Western powers are still determined to avoid deliberate intervention, and soon nothing may be left for intervention to save anyway. Mladen Klemencic, a military analyst in the Croatian...