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There were only the sounds of mourning and the bodies, sprawling heaps of corpses: men, women and children. Some had been shot in the head at pointblank range. Others had had their throats cut. Some had their hands tied behind their backs; one young man had been castrated. Middle-aged women and girls as young as three, their arms and legs grotesquely splayed, were draped across piles of rubble. Portions of their heads were blown away. One woman was found clutching an infant to her body; the same bullet that tore through her chest had also killed the baby. Said...
During a 45-min. meeting with Kohl Thursday evening, Schmidt tried to convince him that a quick, clean contest might result in an absolute Christian Democratic majority-and a mandate to govern without F.D.P. support. Kohl was noncommittal. Schmidt then summoned Genscher and told him pointblank that he had "lost political confidence" in the Free Democrats...
...prime assassination target. Fortunately for him, the man who called at his apartment pretending to be a corporate recruiter bungled the job. Tafoya, 47, a 23-year veteran of the Army and the Marines, who fought in Viet Nam, fired at Zagallai at least twice at pointblank range but succeeded only in blinding him in one eye. Four months later, the .22-cal. pistol used in the attack was found nearby and was easily traced to Tafoya, who was arrested at his home in Truth or Consequences, N. Mex., in April. Tafoya has variously claimed that he acted in self...
...courageous and the fatalistic among leaders will always take risks, but in certain small ways these can be minimized. New lightweight bulletproof vests should be worn. Open-car travel must stop. The public should be kept well back from entrances and exits -most recent assassination attempts have been from pointblank range. "There is no way you can provide complete protection," says one American security expert. "But you can give a subject protection from 15 feet away. The farther away you keep an assailant, the harder it becomes...
...speed away through the streets of Madrid: three people are killed in the blast, and a fourth, Lieut. General Joaquin Valenzuela, head of King Juan Carlos' personal guard, is badly wounded. Another high-ranking officer, General Andrés González de Suso, is gunned down at pointblank range outside his apartment in the capital, and a policeman dies in the ensuing chase. Almost simultaneously, two Civil Guards are murdered by terrorists in a Barcelona bar. The final toll: seven dead and 14 injured, most of them innocent bystanders...