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...than one assailant was involved. Police scoured the area by helicopter and on their hands and knees. They searched nearby trash bins and sewers and interviewed guests but turned up only one additional bit of evidence: the nearly intact first .30-06-cal. slug, which was lying in the crack of a sidewalk near Jordan's room. Said Mayor Moses: "It was not a Saturday-night type of shooting. The gunman was an expert marksman and he knew guns." The mayor described the shooting as "professionally executed," then amended his remarks: " 'Expert,' I suppose, is a much...
Nunn: The authority of the sergeants and chief petty officers is being eroded. Officers today are charged with getting people to reenlist. Because of this, the officers are not backing up their top noncoms when they crack down on the troops -because the crackdowns hurt re-enlistment rates. When you talk to sergeants out there, the lack of discipline and the lack of being backed up when they try to instill discipline are things they bring up repeatedly...
...control of some 200 dissident students who had led a full-scale citizens' insurrection, seizing all government buildings and most police stations. For nine days, several thousand troops that had been withdrawn from the center of the city were poised at the outskirts. Other troops, including three crack paratrooper brigades, had been dispatched to encircle the city. On the tenth day this small army, totaling 17,000 men, finally moved into the troubled city...
...stun grenades and handguns stormed rebel strongholds in the provincial government offices, the tourist hotel, the local radio station and the city park. The rebels fought back with carbines, pistols and M16 rifles they had seized from government arsenals. But the civilian youths were scarcely a match for the crack airborne troops. In less than two hours the soldiers had secured Kwangju. As the sun rose over the city, troopers fanned out into the streets to collar every youngster in sight as a suspected rebel. Hundreds of insurgents were arrested. Officially, 19 were killed in the fighting; according to townspeople...
...attack dogs charged into the crowd. The demonstrators answered with rocks and cries of "Pigs!" The police finally smashed their way through a side entrance into the Public Safety headquarters and secured the building, but the violence spread. Eighteen major fires started and burned out of control. The crack of sniper fire echoed through the sweltering night...