Word: attacker
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...erstwhile chum, Wisconsin's Kennedy-leaning Senator William Proxmire. Invading Milwaukee for a speech, Morse lashed out at the "gutless wonders" and "phony liberals" who had voted for "the Kennedy-Landrum-Grifnn labor reform bill" (TIME, Sept. 14). Proxmire hit back: Morse's attack "indicates an unbalanced, arrogant extremism and speaks eloquently for the reform bill we passed." If Still in uphill pursuit of Vice President Richard Nixon for the Republican presidential nomination, New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller dropped by the White House for an hour-long chat with President Eisenhower. Officially, the two discussed civil...
...escape, and most praised his coolness. A longtime ally of ex-Premier Mendès-France and ten times a Cabinet minister under the Fourth Republic, brilliant Franç Mitterrand was regarded by many of his colleagues as overambitious and opportunistic, but few doubted his basic honesty. Yet why attack Mitterrand? As a member of the ineffectual left-wing opposition, he had had no voice in shaping De Gaulle's Algerian policy. The attacks suggested that France's frustrated rightists were capable of anything. The government offered ois bodyguards to all prominent citizens who wanted them, including...
Morocco-born Pesquet, an unstable and bizarre fellow, was hardly a man whose word was to be preferred to Mitterrand's, except for one fact: nine hours before the attack, he said, he had written a letter describing exactly what was going to happen, and had posted it to himself, care of general delivery. When police collected the letter from the post office, they found that it did indeed describe the attack correctly, even pinpointed the spot at which Mitterrand had abandoned his car after the shooting...
...Matter of Teleguidance. Challenged to explain Pesquet's letter, Mitterrand began to hedge. He had, he admitted, met Pesquet twice in the days immediately preceding the attack, but the shooting itself, he insisted, was no fake. According to Mitterrand's new version, Pesquet had appeared one afternoon with the story that he had been assigned by a rightist underground organization to murder Mitterrand, but did not have the heart to do it; instead, Pesquet proposed that "for safety's sake" Mitterrand start using the roundabout route home that he had followed on the night of the shooting...
Ages in the midst of modern Europe, and it would hardly dare to attack the United States with the military resources at its command: a standing army of 20 mailclad bowmen...