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...Assassin, the "deadly" game banned at numerous college campuses in past years because it was taking too much time from students' academic pursuits, is returning with a bang at Princeton University...

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Assassin | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...Assassin, a player is assigned one victim who he must "shoot" with a water pistol while at the same time evading the assassin who is stalking him. The Daily Princetonian

Author: By Robert M. Neer, | Title: Assassin | 4/13/1983 | See Source »

...addition, opponents of the bills said yesterday that the media coverage of would-be Presidential assassin John W. Hinckley Jr.'s trial had exaggerated the problem of the insanity defense, which they said is rarely used...

Author: By Jesse M. Fried, | Title: Representatives Introduce Bills to Eliminate Plea of Not Guilty by Reason of Insanity | 4/12/1983 | See Source »

...Bulgarians, according to Mantarov, picked Agca as the assassin because he was known as a right-winger with no ties to any Communist country. In November 1979, unknown accomplices slipped Agca out of a Turkish prison. Agca then began a murky trek that ended in St. Peter's Square on May 13,1981. According to Mantarov, the Turk was to meet his own fate there as well: he was supposed to be killed immediately after shooting the Pope...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Vatican: The Undiplomatic Bulgarian | 4/4/1983 | See Source »

...wants the nation's leading talk-show host to give him his big break, let him do on the air the stand-up routine he has been polishing these many months in his Hoboken basement. To these ends he stalks Jerry not as an assassin, but as a nudge and a nerd. The two characters are wonderfully contrasted. Robert De Niro's Rupert has a cheerfully deranged imperviousness to traditional class distinctions and psychological boundary lines that makes you laugh even as it makes you cringe for him. As the object of his desire, Jerry Lewis gives...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Beyond the Fringe of Fandom | 2/14/1983 | See Source »

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