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...received by Major d'Aubuisson one evening after driving through a labyrinth of deserted streets escorted by armed men who announced our arrival by radio. Such precautions are not for nothing: D'Aubuisson got a bullet in the back during the 1982 campaign. Of the six people I found with him, three had been victims of assassination attempts, among them the vice-presidential candidate, Hugo Barrera, who was shot as he left his factory during a strike in October...
...takes home $450 a month, luxuries are even more unthinkable: a pair of jeans can fetch as much as $450, and those who are not lucky in the government lottery must part with $35,000 for a small family car. Meanwhile, senior clergymen are ferried around town in shiny bullet-proof Mercedes limousines, and Islamic Guards drive gleaming Toyota Landcruisers...
Then one gunman jumped onto the trunk and fired several rounds into the upper edge of the rear window. A single bullet ripped through the rubber and thin-metal frame holding the window in place, striking the head of American Leamon R. Hunt, 56, director general of the Multi-National Force and Observers in the Sinai. Hunt died within minutes of his arrival at Rome's San Giovanni hospital...
Jean-Louis Trintignant stars as a mild-mannered real estate agent called Vercel. When his wife's lover is murdered, he is called in to be interrogated. He returns from the police station, to find his wife sprawled on the living room floor; one neat bullet shot through her head. Vercel decides to ignore the advice of his lawyer--"The French adore love affairs...understand crimes of passion...I'll have you acquitted"--and starts out to find the killer himself. Accompanied by a secretary he had just fired, he decides to leave for Marseilles, hoping to dig up clues...
...dragged on, many West Europeans have begun looking for scapegoats and have found them among their minorities. Suddenly the Turks, Pakistanis and Algerians are no longer individuals: they are Kana-ken, nig-nogs and bougnouls. Occasionally the prejudice goes from verbal violence to physical: a gang attack, an anonymous bullet, a bomb thrown from a passing car. More often racism comes at arm's length: random insults, hostile stares, racial stereotypes held up as universal truths. "Yes, I suppose I'm prejudiced," says a West London matron. "People my age had nothing to do with the blunders...