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...UNDER EERIE YELLOW strobe lights at 3 a.m. in Tel 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...
Intelligence sources say that only three of the suspects--Yigal, his brother Hagai and their friend Dror Adani--made up a self-appointed cell of executioners and will be charged with plotting to kill Rabin. Margalit Har-Shefi, 20, a female student at Bar Ilan University, was the latest suspect to be arrested. When she was taken to court, police described her as a "central and dominant figure" and part of the "inner circle" with the other three. But intelligence sources say Har-Shefi, a friend of Amir's, was most likely to be guilty only of teasing...
...block away from where she had been lunching. In January 1994 she filed extensively on Los Angeles' Northridge earthquake, after the house at which she had been staying during a one-day travel stopover was rocked. And then, two weeks ago, she found herself in Jerusalem the day Yitzhak Rabin was killed...
...Lisa Beyer (who is on maternity leave) and to develop in-depth stories about the region. She was having dinner on Saturday night when a friend's cell phone rang with news that hadn't yet hit the TV: the Prime Minister had been shot. McGeary, who had known Rabin professionally for many years, rushed to the TIME bureau and, with Beyer and four stringers, banged out the 15 pages of breaking coverage and analysis that appeared in TIME two days later...
...draft agreement. Almost. "We are inches away," said a frustrated U.S. official, just before the three Presidents, who had been repeatedly coaxed "to the edge''of the table, once again backed off. Their skittishness did not stem only from a concern that they may get a better deal; the "Rabin effect," as Dayton insiders call it, took hold, as the Presidents were worried that if they appeared to give away too much, they might be assassinated at home...