Word: snipering
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...facing such mainland problems as crime and tacky development. In the past two years, robberies have jumped 23% and murders 67%. Often the victims are tourists. Among the more serious incidents reported: a gang rape of a 24-year-old Finnish woman by eleven Hawaiian youths, and a sniper attack that left four injured in the heart of Waikiki. More common are purse snatchings, muggings and car lootings. Much of the violence has been attributed to the descendants of the islands' original Polynesian inhabitants, an underemployed and poorly educated class. Kept at the bottom of the economic ladder...
Kurosawa undercuts the very idea of meaningful action by consistently cutting away from it. His camera looks over the sleeping army when Shingen is mortally wounded (shot, we later discover, by a tubby little sniper who simply into the dark). Before Ieyasu, Singen's snarling enemy, leaps onto a horse, Kurosawa cuts to the smirking face of his servant, and we only hear the man mount and gallop off. The vigorous sound-track, in fact, gives us amplified, overly heroic sounds--thundering hoofbeats, ringing shots, and a lush score by Shinichiro Ikebe that frequently reminds one of Star Wars...
Pushed across the Karun River by the Iraqi onslaught, some Revolutionary Guards tried to sneak back under cover of darkness to set up sniper posts and slay as many Iraqi soldiers as they could, until they were flushed out. The Iraqis say they have now set up security patrols that will shoot anything that moves on the banks of the Karun. Boasts a brigadier general: "Not even a rat can get across the water...
...edge of the Karun River, Iraqi soldiers point to Iranian outposts a few hundred yards away. In the distance, thick plumes of smoke arise from the burning oil refinery at Abadan. An Iraqi private describes how the remaining Iranian defenders have split into three-and four-man sniper squads. Some of the squads have attempted "hit and run" mortar assaults from the south bank of the Karun. An Iraqi general predicts that Abadan could fall within a week, depending on the intransigence of the Iranian holdouts and the willingness of the Iraqis to take sizable losses...
...dislodge the fierce mujahidin (Islamic warriors) from their strongholds. Similarly, Soviet troops have been unsuccessful in efforts to reimpose order on the lawless city of Herat in the northwest, and have only managed to maintain a tenuous and frequently interrupted hold on Kandahar in the south. In Kabul, sniper and grenade attacks have forced a progressively longer and stricter curfew, most recently from 10 o'clock in the evening to 5 in the morning...