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...season. The book begins with the clang of a cell door closing in a GPU prison. It ends with a shot in the back of the head in a murky passageway of the prison cellar. It moves with the speed, directness, precision and some of the impact of a bullet. More plausibly than any other book yet written, fiction or nonfiction, it gives the answer to one of history's great riddles: Why do Russians confess...
...long agony of Viet Nam might soon be ended. Even as that hope blossomed, an older blight on the American conscience burst through with the capriciousness of a spring freeze. In Memphis, through the budding branches of trees surrounding a tawdry rooming house, a white sniper's bullet cut down Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., preeminent voice of the just aspirations and long-suffering patience of black America...
...said Gandhi. Godse suddenly pulled out a tiny Beretta automatic pistol. He fired three times. One bullet ripped into Gandhi's chest, two into his belly. With hands folded, as if welcoming the blow, in the gesture that is both the Hindu greeting and the Christian attitude of prayer, Gandhi fell backward. He murmured, "Ai Ram, Ai Ram" (O Rama, O Rama), in invocation to the gentle hero of the Hindu pantheon, Gandhi's favorite...
...warden made a slight motion with his left hand, and a rifle volley shattered the silence. Four bullets tore into Gilmore's heart, twisting his body, which then turned limp. Blood slowly poured out, staining the bullet-pocked chair. Two minutes later, at 8:07 a.m. on Jan. 17, Gary Gilmore was declared dead. He was the first prisoner to be executed in the U.S. since...
...BROOKLYN has some chilling parallels to the far more publicized murder of Benigno Aquino Jr. as he arrived in the Philippines last month. Aquino, the most powerful and popular opponent of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, got a bullet in the head for defying Marcos' orders to remain in exile. The assassin was himself shot dead on the spot by Marcos troops, ensuring that no direct evidence about the source of the murder will ever come to light. The current anti-Marcos riots in the Philippines show that the ploy didn't work: it only increased suspicion that Marcos may have ordered...