Word: triggerman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Divorced. By Robert F. Marasco, 27, former U.S. Army captain who was alleged to have been the "triggerman" in the recently dismissed Green Beret murder case in Viet Nam: Denise Marasco, 25; on grounds of incompatibility; after 6½ years of marriage, no children; in Juarez, Mexico. Two days later Marasco was critically injured in a traffic accident in South Amboy...
...pages seep into the reader's mind so that, at a certain point in the novel, the character suddenly emerges, fully-fleshed and fully-human. Quickly and easily Williams skerches the relationship between his central characters: Browning, the Don. a now-inactive Mafia kingpin, and Itzhak Hod, the triggerman...
When Frank avenges his father by garroting an old killer (Luther Adler), the mob decides that he must die. Their choice of triggerman: Brother Vince. But for a soldier's son there are no surprises. Lying low in Sicily, Frank realizes that his life really ended years before, when he refused to get out of the gutter and on to the sidewalk. All he can do is cloak himself in the traditional peasant armor: resignation...
...loosely organized army numbering perhaps 2,500, the Rangers hold their neighborhoods in thrall. So far this year, 36 Chicagoans under 21 have been murdered, most of them in juvenile warfare for which the Rangers get the blame. Recruiters even pull pre-teenagers into the ranks, and one triggerman of 14 said that he had carried out a killing...
...Southern racists. The plot, said some, was hatched in Birmingham; others maintained that it was a made-in-Memphis undertaking. The latter theory was given some support last week by a Memphian who told TIME and later the FBI that he had overheard a local businessman giving an unknown triggerman urgent orders to kill King on the balcony of his motel, and even specifying the price for the job ($5,000) and the pickup point for his fee (New Orleans...