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...free and independent nation and became its Governor General. "To draw up the charter of our independence," he felt, "would require the skin of a white man as parchment, his skull as an inkwell, his blood as ink, and a bayonet as a pen." Dessalines died by an assassin's bullet within three years. His successor, Henri Christophe, cared little for charters?black or white. He proclaimed himself King, set up a ludicrous aristocracy (including such titles as the Duke of Marmelade and Count of Limonade), and ruled as a merciless despot until 1820, when his officers revolted...
...instant before the assassin began firing, the Shah bolted for the palace door. A sergeant who ran protectively behind him was felled by eight bullets, but, before dying, he sent a burst from his own gun into Bakhshabadi. When the Shah reached his office, his assassin was dead and the phone was ringing. It was his wife, Queen Farah Diba, who had heard the shots and feared the worst. Said the Shah: "God has saved my life once again...
...where Daniel Boone killed his "bar" and Annie got her gun, the right of the citizenry to "bear arms" is guaranteed by the Constitution. But all rights are limited, and the 1963 death of President Kennedy at the hands of an assassin with a mail-order rifle has caused deep concern about the shocking ease with which death-dealing weaponry may be obtained by anybody...
Some chanted: "Viva el General! Viva el General!" Others cried: "Thief! Assassin! Son of a whore!" As police held back the crowd of 3,000, the armored van carrying Marcos Pérez Jiménez, 50, from his jail cell pulled up in front of Caracas' Supreme Court building. It had been more than seven years since the pudgy strongman was overthrown, and last week, after well-heeled exile in the U.S. and 19 not-too-austere months in Venezuelan prisons, Pérez Jiménez was finally being brought to trial...
Beyond that, the Attorney General would be authorized to offer a $100,000 reward for information leading to the capture of an assassin; in any conflict over investigative jurisdiction, federal agencies would take over, and in any trial of a presidential assailant, no witnesses could plead self-incrimination to avoid testifying, although they would be immune from any prosecution resulting from the testimony...