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...count, more than 4,000 men, women and children; of a gunshot wound; in Paris. Oveissi was strolling along the fashionable Rue de Passy with his brother and a family friend when a lone gunman walked up behind the men and fired a 9-mm pistol at pointblank range. Both Oveissis died instantly; the third man escaped injury. Two groups, the Islamic Jihad and the Revolutionary Organization for Liberation and Reform, claimed responsibility for the killings. The next day, the United Arab Emirates' Ambassador to France, Khalifa Ahmed Abdel Aziz Mubarak, 38, was gunned down in similar fashion...
...searching the perimeter" of the security cordon for troublemakers. On hearing the fatal gunshot, each had turned back toward the plane from which Aquino had disembarked only seconds before, just in time to see a blue-uniformed gunman behind Aquino shoot him in the back of the head at pointblank range...
...separate - and slightly differing - accounts of Balang and Regalado departed dramatically from the official description. According to both versions, Galman never got within pointblank range behind Aquino as military wit nesses had claimed. Moreover, Galman had not been pushed off balance by one of Aquino's escorts and then shot - rather, he "was knocked down by a bullet as he held a gun with two hands over his head." Though the TV report was not aired in the Philippines, and is not admissible as official testimony, it received coverage in Manila newspapers. Lawyers acting on behalf of the AVSECOM...
...same time, Volcker has repeatedly refused to say whether he would accept reappointment to another term. At last week's House Banking Committee hearing, New York Democrat John LaFalce asked him pointblank: "Are you seeking reappointment?" Replied Volcker: "I don't want to get into that...
Volcker's term as Federal Reserve chairman expires in August, and both Washington and Wall Street have been anxiously wondering whether he will serve another four years. He throws up smokescreens when the subject arises. Last week, when Tennessee Senator James Sasser asked Volcker pointblank whether he would be seeking reappointment, the Fed chief replied laconically, "I don't seek jobs...