Word: knifing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...fact that someone would shoot the Pope. And that saddened me more than anything else." Rome Bureau Chief Wilton Wynn was in Beirut reporting on the current confrontation between Israel and Syria when he received news of the attack. Wynn, who was in Manila in 1970 when a knife-wielding Bolivian fanatic lunged at Pope Paul VI, hurried back to Rome to cover his second attempted papal assassination. "In the wake of the Lennon killing and the Reagan shooting, this attack looks like part of a chain reaction of violence," says Wynn. "One such highly publicized event seems...
There were, however, enough differences between Barrett's case and earlier ones to make a connection somewhat questionable. He is the first victim to be found with puncture wounds believed to have been inflicted with a knife after his death. Two other children had knife wounds, but both had been stabbed or bludgeoned to death, probably by someone other than the presumed mass killer. Barrett is only the second victim in the last six to be under age 20. His death will doubtless rally support for a proposed summer program to protect Atlanta's youth and bolster ongoing...
...Germans near Verdun. He felt his imprisonment in a Nazi P.O.W. camp was his "first real encounter with other men." He recalls: "At noon the Germans distributed tureens of rutabaga soup and loaves of bread. At first, it was the survival of the fittest-government by the knife. The first men to get hold of the soup or the bread served themselves, passing on no more than a few drops of dirty water to the others." After three months, however, camp leaders emerged to "cut the black bread into equal slices, under the wide-eyed scrutiny of free voters...
...defy those people who oppose handgun control to point to any other weapon that can inflict such lethal damage from a distance and, at the same time, can be so easily concealed. To suggest that a knife or a club could accomplish what a handgun can is nonsense...
...longtime nickname "Cap the Knife" testifies to his reputation as a ruthless budget cutter. His anti-Soviet rhetoric is at least as bellicose as that of his Cabinet colleague Secretary of State Alexander Haig. Reflecting on the recent European visit of Defense Secretary Caspar Weinberger, the West German newspaper Die Welt complained that he came across like "a Roman proconsul," and a top British defense official said, "He has a way of dropping grenades around the china shop." Another British diplomat softened that blow a bit by saying, "I'd call his performance one of stubbornness with charm...