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President Ford escaped injury yesterday in San Francisco as an alert spectator deflected the gun of a would-be assassin just as it went...
Class Hatred. Psychiatrist Harry L. Kozol, director of the Massachusetts Research Program on the Study of Dangerous Persons, thinks that Fromme may really have been striking at Nixon when she took aim at Ford. Broadly speaking, adds Kozol, assassinations are eruptions of bitter class hatred. "By killing a member of a more powerful group," he says, "the assassin not only exercises class hatred but builds up egotism and self-confidence...
...Wenke's order ("I know that Sirhan's in his cell jumping up and down for joy"), but most experts who have followed the case do not expect the re-examination to change the original verdict. They believe that it will simply confirm Sirhan as the sole assassin...
...were a marked man. Who else, for example, would allow himself to be cast as the only actor ever to kill John Wayne onscreen? In 1971, while Dern was still stuck in second-rank roles, he signed on in The Cowboys as Wayne's assassin. "Dern," said the Duke kindly, "you're gonna be hated everywhere in the world for this...
Died. Prince Faisal ibn Musaed, 26, nephew and assassin of Saudi Arabia's King Faisal; in a public beheading in Riyadh's Court of Justice Square (see THE WORLD...