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That same day, their station wagon was found abandoned and gutted. Weeks later, the police received a tip a rushed to the scene. Three bullet-ridden bodies were recovered. The activists became martyrs...
According to newspaper accounts, one 9mm bullet struck the pope in the right arm, exited and then wounded Ann Odred. 58, of Buffalo, N.Y., in the chest. The other bullet was said to have nicked the pope's left hand, passed through his abdomen, then hit the other American, Rose Hall, 21, in the elbow...
...houses that will later work out the many laws that must be enacted to produce a final economic package. Still, any consensus that develops this week could critically influence the legislation. That is why Ronald Reagan's first national address since a gunman's bullet missed his heart by a mere one inch was aptly timed...
While the President continued his remarkable recovery, another victim of the assassination attempt suffered a setback. White House Press Secretary James Brady, who had been recuperating smoothly from a bullet wound in the head, suddenly turned groggy last week; doctors discovered that a buildup of air was pressuring his damaged brain. Dr. Arthur Kobrine first drained the air and then, in an operation that lasted 5½ hours, found the source of the leak-a hole in the membrane covering the brain near the sinuses-and patched it with muscle tissue from Brady's temple. By week...
...Ugandan soldiers who man dozens of checkpoints in the capital are often indistinguishable from outlaws. Troops routinely rob and harass passersby. Two months ago, a Ugandan company commander, leading his men on a looting expedition, was fatally wounded when a bullet he fired into a door lock ricocheted into his chest. The next day, claiming that the officer had been killed by insurgents, soldiers swooped down on the neighborhood and robbed every home...