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...went on with seven more hours of interviewing, and at one point, to check the story that Dirksen keeps his pants pockets full of enough odds and ends to cover a variety-store counter, he asked the Senator to empty the contents on the spot. Dirksen complied: a pocket knife, a St. Christopher medal, an empty leather pillbox, a cold sniffer, an odd-shaped piece of rough jade, a magnifying reading glass, a 1955 medal of the Kewanee. Ill., Masonic Lodge, a silver dollar money clip, two heavily burdened key rings, and a quarter...
...people wounded, and 12,000 armed attacks," got only life imprisonment? He recalled that France has traditionally been lenient toward political assassins since the public revulsion over the fate of Damiens, Louis XV's valet, who was tortured and killed after grazing his master with a knife during an unsuccessful attempt on his life...
Shaken Government. As the plane neared London, last stop before the hop across the Atlantic, Soblen stabbed himself in the abdomen with a steak knife while McShane was out of the compartment. Soblen was not attempting to commit suicide; he was trying to wound himself just enough to be hospitalized in Britain, thereby gaining time to try to obtain asylum...
Five weeks after skipping $100,000 bail to avoid life imprisonment in the U.S. for wartime espionage, Convicted Soviet Spy Dr. Robert Soblen, 61, was refused asylum in Britain, as he had been in Israel. Expertly carving himself up with a steak knife as he was being returned to the U.S. aboard an El Al Israel Airlines jet, Soblen gained a stay in London, but British judges were unmoved by his plea of illness and persecution. Britain's Home Secretary told Parliament: "Dr. Soblen is a fugitive from a sentence imposed on him by the courts of a country...
...wounded bird and throws it at Loomis in an unconscious mimicking of his killer idol, Loomis sadly senses that he is losing the battle to turn the boy into a humane being. When the cease-fire comes, Endore goes hopelessly psychopathic and heads for the hills with his knife, and Charlie. This jeopardizes the cease-fire agreement, and some of Endore's platoon mates volunteer to bring him back. When they track him down, he adamantly refuses to return. "Come back," coaxes the C.O., "the war is over." And Endore, speaking from the depths of his profoundly disturbed personality...