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...when Minister of the Interior Gaston Deferre arrived at Goldenberg's a short while after the attack, a mob gathered outside appeared intent on a lynching. "Mitterrand traitor!" "Mitterrand assassin!" they yelled at the President's representative as the police struggled to maintain control. Deferre took in the scene, said nothing, and quickly left...

Author: By Antony J. Blinken, | Title: Mitterrand's Struggle for Peace | 9/13/1982 | See Source »

...Lincoln Continental through The Bronx in New York City one evening last week when a passenger in the car suddenly placed a .38-cal. pistol to the back of his head and fired a single shot. The Continental swung out of control and smashed into a parked car. The assassin jumped out and climbed into a trailing red Buick LeSabre, which then sped away. But the victim happened to be Nat Masselli, 31, son of Mobster William ("Billy the Butcher") Masselli, 55. And that made the hit something special...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Message for a Mobster | 9/6/1982 | See Source »

...instantly clear that opportunities for misuse were endless. The three of them roughed out the National Survival Game almost instantly. There would be a forested tract of about 100 acres and up to twelve competitors stalking one another through the underbrush with Nel-Spots. The first assassin to collect a flag from each of the four flag stations would win, provided he escaped being shot...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: In New Hampshire: Splotched in the Woods | 7/19/1982 | See Source »

...worked in such a widely publicized case. The verdict, however, only reaffirms the prior knowledge free will foundation of American law. John Hinckley's inevitable consignment to a mental home does not eliminate the distinction between legal treatment of the "loons" and the "goons." Only several weeks ago, convicted assassin Sirhan B. Sirham, the murderer of Robert F. Kennedy, was denied parole in California, testimony to the fact that it was the very calculated and willful nature of his offense that made it so abhorrent...

Author: By Paul A. Engelmayer, | Title: Another Look at Hinckley | 6/29/1982 | See Source »

Mind of an Assassin...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Jun. 14, 1982 | 6/14/1982 | See Source »

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