Word: rooftops
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...instance, some black militant groups refuse to talk to whites. And it is doubtful if any white reporter could have got the chilling interview obtained by former Los Angeles Times man Ray Rogers in Detroit in 1967 from a sniper who offered to take him up on a rooftop and "show him." But black newsmen, too, do not always have easy access to black stories...
...should have. Last week, bound for a monastery 30 miles away to celebrate Mass, Makarios strapped himself inside the presidential helicopter just outside his palace in Nicosia. When the silver-and-white chopper reached rooftop level, automatic gunfire spat out from a high school across the street, riddling the craft. Makarios was uninjured, but the pilot, Army Major Zacharias Papadoyiannis, 38, was wounded seriously in the abdomen. Nonetheless, though he grazed a tree as he swung desperately from the line of fire, he managed to set the craft down on a 12-ft. by 12-ft. open square. Then, mumbling...
During the ensuing three-hour battle, a shotgun blast hit James Rector, 25, an unemployed carpenter who was watching the melee from the supposed safety of a nearby roof. He later died of the wounds. Another rooftop spectator, Allan Blanchard, 29, was blinded by pellets from police guns...