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...Assassin, for the gloomy shadow he has cast across the world...
However, Butler said the two students were simply playing a game like "hide and seek," with the toy guns and were not involved in the game of "Assassin...
...honest folk at Southland Corporation, though, have done their best to keep some measure of realism in Christmas 1981. Ronald Reagan, John Paul II, Anwar Sadat all were felled by gunmen this year; what, then, could be more topical, more true to life, than a board game called "Assassin...
Priced at $16, and, what's more, "as advertised on TV!" Assassin is described by its clever creators as "deadly fun." Players sell "illegally obtained commodities" in an attempt to raise enough cash to hire "as many of the game's 30 assassins as it takes to eliminate the opposing players." Though a blurb on the cover describes the game as "non-political," it adds that perhaps it is not "suitable for children under 12." It is, Jordan Marsh personnel insist, among the season's hottest sellers...
...journey took him a mere 75 miles north of the Vatican, Pope John Paul II, 61, was delighted to be back doing what he does best. The Pontiffs trip to the Italian village of Todi was his first visit outside Rome since he was felled by a would-be assassin's bullet in St. Peter's Square. Security forces, the largest ever in Italy for a papal visit, tried to keep a distance between the Pontiff and a crowd of 10,000, but John Paul would have none of it. Disregarding his ring of security guards, the Pope...