Word: firefighting
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...pillage at gunpoint. Citizens, if caught out of doors, can be routinely gunned down in the street. Shortly after we arrived, a young businessman tried to illustrate the pervasiveness of the violence: "I went home to change my clothes at 10:30 this morning-and got caught in a firefight. That night I could hear bullets ricochet off a nearby building...
Fuller's film is essentially a series of incidents. Marvin's squad hits an African beach defended by the Vichy French, and instead of facing a firefight, they find themselves making allies of these reluctant warriors. They knock out a hidden German gun in Italy and are awarded an alfresco luncheon by the women of the newly liberated town. They survive a German ambush and soon after help to deliver a French woman's baby in the tank they have captured. There is a weird battle in an insane asylum, and the death of a child...
...sounded more like a firefight than an execution. For nearly three minutes, the firing squad discharged volley after volley at the targets. Cecil Dennis continued to stand upright, his eyes closed, as one errant shot after another was fired at him by his executioner. Finally, another soldier stepped out of the ranks and killed him with a sustained burst of automatic fire...
STOCKHOLM, April 24, 1975 Terrorists seize West German embassy to demand release of 26 Baader-Meinhof gang members being held in German prisons. They set off explosion in building. Two diplomats and one terrorist die in firefight with police before terrorists surrender; ten other hostages are released...