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...members were dosed with sedatives and lay down in a sunburst pattern, most of them with plastic bags over their head. The remaining two then shot the others dead, set the bodies ablaze and killed themselves with pistol shots under the chin. One of the executioners was a policeman, Jean-Pierre Lardanchet. Two of the three girls shot through the forehead with a .357 magnum were his own daughters, ages 2 and 4, investigators disclosed last week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SUNBURST SACRIFICES | 1/8/1996 | See Source »

...innocent bookstore clerk). He can't prevent his most valuable henchman and his wife (Val Kilmer and Ashley Judd) from marital misbehavior that threatens his enterprise. He can't, in general, prevent blighted human nature from scribbling all over his neat blueprints. This leaves him vulnerable to a policeman--nice irony here--who is more accepting of the world's anarchy than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: DUEL IN THE BLANKNESS | 12/11/1995 | See Source »

...Aviv's newly named Yitzhak Rabin Square, Yigal Amir again fired a pistol at a victim less than a yard away. This time the gun was a toy and the Prime Minister, whom Amir assassinated on the same spot 12 days before, was played by a policeman. Amir wore a white bulletproof vest, and a chain around his waist yoked him to police escorts while he coolly re-enacted the killing for official video cameras. "Murderer, die! Maniac! You piece of garbage!" shouted Israelis from behind the barricades...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE SMOOTH ASSASSIN | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...country in his five-year term, beginning this week. The news broke the spell of silence, and a society long cowed by terror erupted with relief. The President's security forces indulged in a daylong binge of celebratory shooting. "The war's over! We won! This is democracy!" a policeman shouted as he fired his 9-mm pistol into the air. Middle-class women laden with jewelry and dressed in tight-fitting Western clothes waved flags from the windows of cars that sped through Algiers with horns blaring. Temporarily at least, the Establishment had lost its fear of the guerrillas...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Algeria: BALLOTS, NOT BULLETS | 11/27/1995 | See Source »

...white bulletproof vest, Yigal Amir was lead by police back to the spot where he killed Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin today. As angry onlookers screamed insults, Amir calmly reenacted the assassination. Using a plastic pistol, he showed how he shot Rabin in the back, narrating his movements for a policeman with a tape recorder. "It was eerie," says TIME's Edward Barnes. "They did this at three in the morning and there was still a crowd." Barnes says that such reenactments are common in Israel, especially when suspects have confessed. "It does tend to reinforce the view that this...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: RETURN TO THE SCENE | 11/16/1995 | See Source »

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