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...when it's hot, it's almost a guarantee--somewhere in Boston someone will snap. "City desk to Eddie Moran," the radio squawks around 2:30. "We have a sniper in the Old Westwood Apartments, Norwood--the place is crawling with cops." And he's off, travelling fast down the deserted Southeast Expressway towards Norwood. A few wrong turns, but still there in twenty minutes--just in time to see the policemen return to the station. The desk sergeant says come back tomorrow, no information available, still in booking process, details in the morning, can't help...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Park Street Under Blues | 7/8/1980 | See Source »

They drive the reporter back to the scene of the crime, a wood-siding townhouse in a complex dotted with speedbumps. Turned out sniper wasn't quiet the word. A young man, upset that his girl was seeing another man, roared up to the door in his snub-nosed car, pulled out a rifle, and threatened to blow away not only the new boyfriend but the old girlfriend as well...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: The Park Street Under Blues | 7/8/1980 | See Source »

...West Bank, the population remained tense following the terrorist attacks on two Palestinian mayors two weeks ago. An Israeli policeman in the Old City of Jerusalem was shot and wounded by a sniper, the first such incident within the Old City in several years. Obstinately, Begin defended the "inalienable right" of Jews to live wherever they wish in the West Bank. He announced that Israel will build ten more settlements in that area, after which it will concentrate on strengthening and enlarging existing settlements. He claimed that Carter had once endorsed such a strategy-an assertion that the State Department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MIDDLE EAST: Keeping the Talks Alive | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...with advertising, most of it aimed at the high-priced professional "adventurer." There are lots of advertisement for books, on every topic from how "to build a submachine gun in your home workshop," to "a revealing look at fantastically effective sniping techniques," the latter complete with a chapter on "Sniper Employment." Maybe you need German Paratrooper Boots? Or a knife called the Dwarf ("the bastard of the mating of wormeaten wood with twisted steel.") Or perhaps you are "ready for the fun and excitement of the M-19 A" submachine gun? All are available in the Soldier of Fortune market...

Author: By William E. Mckibben, | Title: Three American Magazines | 6/23/1980 | See Source »

...extremist followers of Rabbi Moshe Levinger, founder of the Greater Israel Movement, illegally attempted to re-establish a Jewish presence in the Arab city of Hebron after an absence of more than 40 years, Begin allowed them to remain. In January, after a Jewish student was killed by a sniper's bullet in Hebron, the Israeli government approved the building of two religious schools in Hebron's former Jewish quarter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: Two Teeth for a Tooth! | 6/16/1980 | See Source »

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