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This strategy is one of the many available to the 70 registered participants in "Killer," a game of cloak-and-dagger intrigue organized by three freshmen. "Killer" and similar games known as "Murder" and "Assassin" are rapidly becoming a fad on the nation's campuses...
...object of "Killer" is "to kill without being killed." For a two-dollar registration fee, participants receive a plastic water pistol and an official entry card with the name of their intended target. To "kill" his victim, the assassin must show his water pistol and say. "You're dead...
After he has killed his first victim, the murderer receives the name of his next target. He may kill as many victims as he likes, as long as no more than a total of four people witness the killings. The cycle continues until only one more assassin remains. The game can be played at any time of day--there are no "out-of-bound" hours...
DIED. Marguerite Oswald, 73, mother of the presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald, who bitterly contested the Warren Commission's conclusion that her son had acted alone in shooting John F. Kennedy in Dallas on Nov. 22, 1963; of cancer; in Fort Worth, Texas. A loquacious, self-dramatizing woman, she once proclaimed: "If you research the life of Jesus Christ, you find that you never did hear anything more about the mother of Jesus after he was crucified...
DIED. John Lennon, 40, former Beatle whose singing, songwriting and social activism left a lasting imprint on the culture of the past two decades; of gunshot wounds by an assassin's hand; in New York City (see NATION...