Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Klieg lights often throw more heat than illumination. Hearsay evidence can be spoken out of context. Mistakes cannot be edited on live TV. Even the most innocent cameraman can, at a tense moment, transform the zoom lens into a character assassin...
...politically. After repeated surgery for the complications caused by the gunshot wounds, Wallace underwent still another operation in January for the removal of his prostate. It left him more depressed than ever. Avoiding people and politics, he showed interest only in reading the diary of his would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer. Once, by accident, he watched a replay of the shooting on television. It had a "traumatic" effect on him, say friends...
...people of Bruay were quite happy to have Leroy singled out as the assassin, since he had several strikes against him. He was a wealthy bourgeois in a poor socialist town. He was a bachelor of 37, and there were whispered rumors that he frequented prostitutes in Lille and was having an affair with a married woman. Worst of all, he was the legal representative of local coal bosses who had closed down many of the mines and thrown hundreds of Bruay men out of work...
...terrorists wanted nothing less than the release by the U.S. of Sirhan Sirhan, assassin of Robert Kennedy; the release by Jordan of "our leader," Abu Daoud, and 16 "colleagues" who were arrested last month for plotting to overthrow King Hussein's regime; the release by West Germany of two criminals sympathetic to Black September; the release by Israel of all female Palestinian prisoners. If their demands were not met, the terrorists said, they would start executing the hostages one by one, "beginning with the American ambassador...
Died. Bessie Greenwood Brown, 92, operatic soprano whose most memorable performance was a practice session in 1901 that attracted President William McKinley to the concert hall at the Pan-America Exposition in Buffalo, where an assassin mortally wounded him; in Buffalo...