Word: snipering
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...first night of rioting, a local man watching Castillo's crew put out a fire at a nearby grocery was gunned down by a sniper and hospitalized. In the warm spring weather, fire fighters were forced to don flak jackets to protect themselves from attack...
...firepower wielded by gun-toting gang members and frightened citizens also hindered law-enforcement efforts. Traffic was snarled on one South Central street after a car careened out of control when a motorist was killed by a sniper. Fears that random gun battles would break out in the downtown office area led businesses to dismiss their employees for the weekend by Thursday afternoon. Several roadways were cordoned off by police to prevent destruction from spreading north to Hollywood and Beverly Hills from the poorer regions of the city...
...Serb-owned cafe last week, killing several customers, heavily armed Serbian commandos slaughtered civilian Muslims and took over the town, invading the local mosque and tearing down the Islamic flag. In Bosnia's current state of lawlessness, guerrillas enter at will from Serbia and annex border towns. Sniper bullets and artillery shells whistle through the streets, catching innocent bystanders in the crossfire. In the week since independence was recognized, more than 100 have died, and the Serbian-dominated Yugoslav army has refused to intervene. Because of the close intermingling of Bosnia's Muslims, Serbs and Croats, some fear the casualties...
Early in the second, Harvard finally put one between the pipes. Whyte made a pin-point pass to Alissi who charged towards the crease. The sophomore sniper deflected the puck by Tiernan to put Harvard...
...first time, the conflict was brought home to Zagreb, Croatia's capital, which howled with air-raid sirens and rattled with sniper fire. For the first time, too, the emergency came truly home to Western Europe. After the fourth attempt by the 12-nation European Community to arrange a cease-fire fell apart almost instantly, the U.N. Security Council considered an attempt at peacekeeping. There may be little time to waste. An old infection -- Europe's original sin of tribalism -- is once again raging out of control in the Balkans. Since the Continent's nationalist frenzies had drawn...