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...that his best friend, Oosterbroek, had been killed in Tokoza. Marinovich had been gravely wounded. Oosterbroek's death devastated Carter, and he returned to work in Tokoza the next day, even though the violence had escalated. He later told friends that he and not Ken "should have taken the bullet...
...attempted his first assassination. Catching the Jewish president of the Marks & Spencer department store chain, Joseph Edward Sieff, in the bathroom, Carlos aimed his gun at his prey's face and fired one shot. Sieff was spared when the bullet ricocheted off his teeth. Later, Carlos would say his gun had jammed. "I usually fire three times around the nose. But only one bullet went off." He also botched his second mission, aiming poorly as he tossed hand grenades into an Israeli bank. "This is not a very efficient terrorist," says Vincent Cannistraro, former head of the CIA's counterterrorism...
...profit, earn such a bad reputation? The World Bank, which is 50 years old this year, ought to be celebrating its career as the Mother Teresa of global finance. All told, the bank has extended $300 billion in loans to pay for 6,000 projects ranging from Japan's bullet train to a cataract-surgery clinic in India that will serve 11 million people. Instead of inspiring congratulations, however, the institution's golden anniversary has drawn damning accusations that the bank has damaged the environment, bolstered authoritarian regimes and favored rich people over poor ones. The criticism is getting noisy...
Twenty years ago today, Richard Nixon dodged the bullet of impeachment by resigning as president of the United States. The Watergate scandal that caused his political demise began to unravel with news reports of burglary in 1972 at Democratic Party headquarters. It became clear that Richard Nixon had played a key role in covering up the crime. During the last decade, Nixon worked hard to rehabilitate his reputation. But upon his death earlier this year he was remembered widely as the only president to step down before his term of office expired...
...former minister and fervent pro-lifer is the suspect in the shotgun murder of a Pensacola, Fla. abortion-clinic doctor and his volunteer security escort. Dr. John Bayard Britton, 69, was wearing a bullet-proof vest, but the gunman shot him in the head. The wife of the slain escort was injured. Paul Hill, who has in the past advocated violence as a biblically sanctioned means to stop abortion, has been arrested. Another Pensacola abortion-clinic physician was murdered in March, 1993. Spokespeople for and against abortion rights condemned today's slaying...