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When the office learned that Lee Harvey Oswald. Kennedy's assassin, had travelled in the Soviet Union. Chayes' boss sent him to recover Oswald's passport files. "You felt like someone had taken your stomach out, but you had to keep going...

Author: By Holly A. Idelson, | Title: A 20th Century Fault Line | 11/22/1983 | See Source »

...heavily armed U.S. marshals waiting last week outside the gates of Porn Peddler Larry Flynt's Bel-Air, Calif., mansion were taking no chances. Flynt, 41, who had been paralyzed by a would-be assassin's bullet, had been quoted as saying he would shoot anyone who came to get him "right between the eyes." But this time, at least, he was not true to his word. "If any of you want to know if this is a publicity gimmick, yes, it is," he told reporters, "and thank God you all fell for it." Then, wearing a LARRY...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: Nov. 14, 1983 | 11/14/1983 | See Source »

...August 21, the returning leader was gunned down by an unknown assassin as he stepped off an airplane in Manila. Aquino faced a life-imprisonment sentence under the Marcos regime. Marcos suspended the sentence three years ago to allow Aquino to come to the United States for an operation...

Author: By Lucy I. Armstrong, | Title: Harvard, Widow Mourn Murdered Filipino Leader | 11/8/1983 | See Source »

Olivas' "report" did little to dispel doubts about the official government version. Amadeo Seno, the commission's deputy counsel, told newsmen last week that he had found a number of contradictions in Olivas' testimony. Four hours after Aquino was killed, Seno noted, Olivas had described the assassin as being 5 ft. 6 in. tall. But the physician who performed the autopsy later reported that Galman was 5 ft. 9 in., or ¼ in. taller than Aquino. Galman's height is a crucial clue in determining whether he was tall enough to walk behind Aquino...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Philippines: Test of Wills | 10/24/1983 | See Source »

...PART of a rehabilitation program to get an Connery's 007 ready for a return to action, British Secret Service officials put him through a medical examination that includes a urine test. But seen an English hospital affords Bond little production. A random assassin chases the aging Bond through the hospital and traps him in a laboratory, desperation. Bond picks up the nearest beaker and throws its contents at the assailant, who recoils and impales himself on a wall of test tubes. Connery casually looks at the beaker, which is belled "James Bond's urine." Portrait of the self-sufficient...

Author: By John D. Solomon, | Title: Nobody Does It Better | 10/17/1983 | See Source »

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