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Over the past two months, Betty Williams and Mairead Corrigan have been trying to work a miracle in Northern Ireland. Sickened by the deaths of three children crushed by a wayward I.R.A. getaway car (TIME, Sept. 6), the two women raised a cry for peace that has brought 200,000 Roman Catholics and Protestants to demonstrations-together-to demand an end to seven years of sectarian bloodshed...
...Here's where I make my getaway with Cambridge's only breakfast table daily...
...that Peiper's last moments began with gunfire: his hunting rifle along with three empty cartridges were found on his terrace. With positive identification of the charred body difficult, some townspeople began wondering whether Peiper might have in fact staged the shooting and fire to cover his own getaway. Mayor Rigoulot, for his part, let it be known that, even before the blaze, he had decided not to renew the German's residence permit next year...
...care taken to avoid entrapment. A Chicago undercover man, Joseph Saladino, is perhaps the nation's champion operative in the field. While he says "there's no way I can suggest the crime," he has managed to get hired as, among other things, a hit man, a getaway-car driver and an enforcer-and then to nail his employers with convictions. Most innovative and successful of all have been police-run fencing operations in New York, Chicago and Washington (TIME, March...
Another exhibit, bearing Patty's fingerprints although not her handwriting, was a neatly typed outline that Browning characterized as "a laundry list" of how to rob a bank. The step-by-step tips cautioned that planning the getaway could be tricky: "The first plan for the route isn't always the best." The paper called for a "final dry run," and a last-minute check of "weapons, ammo, clothing, disguise." Typed on the left side of the document was a warning: "Expect the unexpected...