Word: snipering
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...Hatfield and McCoy feud between N.Y. and L.A. is fueled at Broadway's Biltmore Theater by Furth's comic sniper fire. In Director Gene Saks' nimble hands, the characters suffer the gauntlet of Pacific perils from mudslides to brushfires to shudderingly mirthful earthquakes. Furth's people are antic and simpatico. Mae (Betty Garrett) has been an offstage mother to her orchestra conductor son since he first brandished a baton. That he is 40 and a bachelor mortifies her, but not as much as having blurted out on a TV interview that he was not a homosexual...
...someone in a neighboring building. Says he: "If you can't talk to your friend on the telephone, you can't talk to him at all." Last summer during a card game in an open-air hallway, Terri Burch, 17, was shot in the leg by a sniper. "I'd like to move," says Burch, who is unmarried with one child and another on the way. "But I'm on welfare like everyone else, and they give me $207 a month. Where can you live on that...
...Giron ranch, in Cerro los Ganchos, was searched more thoroughly than the others. While a sniper with bad aim kept M16 bullets zinging through the banana leaves, soldiers discovered a hidden gun position, two first-aid backpacks, a homemade grenade, a Claymore mine and a 100-year-old muzzle-loading rifle...
DIED. Olivier Rebbot, 31, French freelance photographer; of injuries received on Jan. 15 when he was shot by a sniper in San Francisco Gotera, El Salvador, while on assignment for Newsweek; in Hialeah, Fla. Rebbot was the second journalist to be killed and the third to be wounded this year in the civil strife in El Salvador. Another, American Freelance Writer John J. Sullivan, is missing and presumed dead...
...north of San Salvador. Mates suffered severe head wounds from steel splinters and died the next day in a local hospital. Meiselas and Hoagland were evacuated to the U.S. Later in the week another photographer on assignment for Newsweek, Olivier Rebbot, 31, was shot in the chest by a sniper while covering the fighting at San Francisco Gotera. Another photographer on assignment for TIME, Harry Mattison, protected Rebbot till an ambulance arrived...