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...idea in yet another assassin's mind." Joining Wynn and Kalb was Bonn Bureau Chief Roland Flamini, a Vatican hand of long experience who served for three years as a TIME correspondent in Rome before moving to Bonn in March. Flamini, author of the recently published book Pope, Premier, President, has reported on the deaths of John XXIII, Paul VI and John Paul I. Says he: "The first understandably confused accounts of the shooting were serious enough to make me think I was about to cover my fourth papal death. For once, I was glad to be wrong...
Some of this can help explain why the Rumour and Rockpile, two of rock's premier powerpop groups, are British. American rockers don't seem to have the musical knowledge, care, or sense of humor to do what these bands do--or at least do it well...
...before he left Washington, Haig won Reagan's agreement, despite resistance from some hardliners. Soon after he arrived in Rome he met with the key advocate of renewed arms control, West German Foreign Minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, and displayed a five-page handwritten letter from Reagan to Soviet Premier Leonid Brezhnev. In it Reagan communicated his horror of war, his hopes for peace and his willingness this year to move a step toward resuming SALT by negotiating controls of European continental-range missiles. Haig later mentioned the letter to other foreign ministers, with evident effect...
Finally, the Central Committee also endorsed a minor shake-up in the ruling Politburo. Out went the ineffectual former Premier, Jozef Pinkowski. In came two workers, Gerard Gabrys, a miner, and Zygmunt Wronski, a molder at the Ursus tractor factory. Their inclusion in the party's supreme body, said Kania, was "the first step toward extending the representation of workers from the provinces into the Politburo...
...must say, the most paralyzing pain. . . as if someone had hit you with a hammer." Thus did the nation's premier convalescent describe last week just what it felt like to have been shot in the chest. Admitting that the assassination attempt a month ago "still seems unreal," Ronald Reagan recalled that at first he thought he had been hurt only by being shoved into the limousine by Secret Service Agent Jerry Parr. "When I suddenly found I was coughing up blood, we both decided that maybe I'd broken a rib and punctured a lung...