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...anti-abortion camp have supported Salvi's actions. They argue that defending innocent lives in danger through the use of force, even deadly force, is morally justified because of the greater harm that it prevents. For example, they reason, if we knew that an individual was about to shoot into a crowd and kill many people, murdering him would be justified if it were the only way of preventing these deaths...
Only one of the hijackers' homemade grenades went off, doing little damage. The gendarmes countered with concussion grenades, which temporarily deafen and blind, allowing them to burst into the cockpit and shoot down the terrorists...
...combat troops into Bosnia, possibly as many as 25,000. But the pledge came festooned with important maybes: the troops would go in only to help the 19-nation U.N. peacekeeping force withdraw, and then only if the blue helmets came under attack and had to shoot their way out -- and even then only after "consultation" with a very unenthusiastic Congress. But even a remote possibility of American G.I.s shooting at Bosnian Serbs will hardly help ease the irritation between Washington and Moscow...
...last week the 69-year-old workaholic Citron was forced to resign and instantly became perhaps the most hated man in Orange County. So enraged was one taxpayer at the mere sight of Citron's photo in a county office that he threatened to return with a gun and shoot it down. That outburst came shortly after Orange County, stunned by a $1.5 billion loss in the $20 billion investment pool that Citron managed, filed for bankruptcy protection in the largest municipal collapse in U.S. history. "This is the Hindenburg," said Joe Mysack, who follows the bond market as editor...
...good to see him shoot well, because we really need that," Sullivan said. "We need that from our other guys, too, especially when our opponents are hitting their shots, like they were today...