Word: assassine
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...Stanford University, several participants advocated registration of all guns-if only, said one, to "see if this reduces crime or death rates." Other preventive measures were linked to the predictability of assassin types. Drs. Robert L. Taylor and Alfred E. Weisz noted that of the nine men involved in the eight known attempts on the lives of American Presidents, all were Caucasian males aged 24 to 40. All were smaller than average in stature. All were unknowns, except John Wilkes Booth. Most importantly, "each of these men had some cause or grievance that appeared obsessional, if not delusional, in intensity...
Russian Roulette. Both meetings suggested that it is not only the potential assassin who must be watched but the President or candidate, lest he exhibit too much bravado. "I play Russian roulette every time I get up in the morning," Robert Kennedy once remarked, "but there is nothing I could do about it." The psychiatrists urged that Presidents and presidential candidates be prohibited by law from "close contact" with crowds when a visit has been announced in advance. That is particularly urgent, they suggested, because assassinations themselves breed violent reactions in disturbed people, making other assassinations more likely...
...second one-acter called Witness finds McNally in fine comic and caustic fettle. Again a gagged victim is trussed up in a chair, this time a man. His captor (Joe Ponazecki) hopes to assassinate the President of the U.S. during a motorcade, and he wants a witness to his own sanity in committing the act. The stuff of madness has been crammed into this young would-be assassin's head, principally by avid newspaper reading and televiewing. He knows all about cabinet crises in Lebanon, but he doesn't know right from wrong. He hopes to resolve...
...basic democracy," Ayub's rule is sustained by indirect elections through a sympathetic electoral college of 120,000 educated Pakistanis. He, in turn, provides Pakistan with political stability and a steadily improving economy. But last week Pakistan's facade of political calm cracked. A would-be assassin took two wild potshots at Ayub. Student riots broke out in half a dozen cities...
Indeed, a society that equates defeat with failure runs the risk of creating angry outcasts who eventually seek revenge and justification. In extremity, such explosive emotions can drive frustrated losers to the crime of "magnacide" (killing somebody big). Lee Harvey Oswald, the archetypal U.S. assassin, almost certainly murdered John F. Kennedy partly to borrow for himself the luster of a glamorous winner. The Oswalds are rare. Still, Americans do need a lot more help in coping with the problems of losing...