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...Mexico City's daily Excelsior frequently exposed corruption and criminality in the higher levels of the government, labor and business, and regularly attacked CIA involvement in Latin America; of gunshot wounds (while entering a parking lot, he was shot at least three times in the back by an assassin who escaped in the crowded streets); in Mexico City. His columns, which had recently zeroed in on corruption in the oil industry and its powerful union, had provoked several death threats, and he carried a pistol at all times...
Every presidential candidate insists that he is choosing his running mate for one reason and one only?that he (or, now, she) would be the best-qualified person in the country to take over the White House should some disaster or assassin strike. That piety is a useful standard to keep before the eyes of the convention, and in a civics-lesson way, it should be true. But it is mostly nonsense. No presidential nominee wants a cretin or arsonist on his ticket, but otherwise the running mate is chosen, not for sterling presidential qualities, but because he (she) will...
...public suspense over Ver's appearance was palpable. Among those especially eager to see him on the stand were members of Galman's family, who have reported that the accused assassin's wife was taken from her home in January by soldiers saying they were "under orders from General Ver." She has not been seen since. To avoid facing the Galmans, who came to the hearing with protest placards saying FATHER IS DEAD. IS MOTHER DEAD TOO?, the general arrived at the building an hour early, accompanied by a phalanx of guards...
Pope John Paul II's prison visit with his would-be assassin [Jan. 9] demonstrates that the ability to forgive is a rare gift. But as the Pontiff has shown, it is possible. As a result, there is hope in this mad world...
...Pope can afford to forgive his would-be assassin., That is his right as an individual. His action is also a manifesto for his flock. But do not tell me that those who endured the Nazi furor are supposed to follow the papal example and forgive the mass killings. The victims' ashes and bones, scattered in graves unmarked by a cross or David's star, would be desecrated by such a gesture...