Word: shootouts
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...government had clearly been braced for violence. A day before the demonstration, police killed two men and a woman in a shootout in Santiago. The victims were identified as suspects in last month's assassination of the military governor of the Santiago metropolitan region, a crime the government blames on leftists-and many Chileans blame on rightists. Even though Interior Minister Sergio Onofre Jarpa called for the formation of "neighborhood defense committees" to disrupt the demonstrations, thousands took part in the protests. At least five people were killed...
...been nearly two years since a group of self-styled revolutionaries shocked the nation by holding up an armored truck in Rockland County, N.Y., killing a Brink's guard and, in a subsequent Shootout, two local police officers. It was quickly apparent that the attack was not merely a last violent gasp of the radicalism born in the '60s. Information gleaned from the robbery and murder scenes led police to "safe houses" in Mount Vernon, N.Y., The Bronx and elsewhere, from which they carted away truckloads of evidence. With that material, plus leads provided by informants, police began...
Kahl had been wanted on murder charges since a shootout last February at Medina, N. Dak., in which two federal marshals were killed. The marshals had been trying to serve a warrant on Kahl for violating his parole on a 1977 conviction for failure to file federal income tax returns. On May 28, Kahl's son Yorivon, 23, and Scott Paul, 29, were convicted of two counts of second-degree murder and six counts of assault in the episode. But the elder Kahl, a member of the ultraright-wing Posse Comitatus, a paramilitary organization that opposes income taxes...
...after the shootout, an assault force composed of U.S. marshals, FBI agents, state and local police thought they had Kahl surrounded when they drew close to his modest Heaton farmhouse, not far from where the police car was found. During a 24-hour siege, the house was first approached by the tanklike personnel carrier, then bombarded with tear gas. Finally a SWAT team moved in, kicked down the door-and found the house unoccupied. Inside were more than 30 guns...
Your story about the shootout in Memphis [Jan. 31] raises serious questions about our society's attitudes toward criminals. Maxine Smith, executive secretary of the Memphis N.A.A.C.P., and Walter Bailey, Shelby County commissioner, wrongly portray the police as the criminals. Officer Robert Hester, who was tortured and murdered, was the victim. His fellow officers, who were forced to stand by and listen to Hester's screams and pleas for mercy, were also victims. Lindberg Sanders and his cult followers are the criminals...