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...possibility that someone might try to take his life. That knowledge has brought a tinge of apprehension to even the most routine presidential assignments. TIME'S Dirck Halstead had just such a prosaic task last week: taking pictures of President Reagan at the Washington Hilton. Suddenly gunshots rang out. Halstead, who photographed one of the assassination attempts on Gerald Ford in 1975, was able to take some of the dramatic pictures that accompany this week's cover stories. Says Halstead: "It has become necessary to bring to this assignment the constant awareness that violence might occur...
Meanwhile, there are sure to be shifts in the balance of forces within the Administration, some with lasting consequences. Even in an Administration officially dedicated to Cabinet Government, the White House staff had been increasing its influence before the shots rang...
...feet to confront the raiders, but was butted savagely in the stomach with a submachine gun and manhandled into his seat. Outgoing Prime Minister Adolfo Suárez angrily rose and declared that he still represented the people. "Sit down, pig!" shouted one of the attackers. As shots rang out, most of the legislators ducked, but Suárez remained defiantly upright on the government front bench...
Still, Charles waited for her return before taking the next proper step: asking Diana's father for her hand. "They rang me up," related Earl Spencer, 57, "and Charles said, 'Can I marry your daughter? I have asked her, and very surprisingly she said yes.' " Spencer's reply: "I'm delighted for you both." Though later he joked: "I wonder what he would have said if I'd turned him down." The father of the bride could not contain his pride: "She is a giver, not a taker, and that is very rare these...
American fiction in 1978 rang with two strong young voices: John Irving's in The World According to Garp and Mary Gordon's in her first novel, Final Payments. Both books dealt with the unavoidable responsibilities and equally unavoidable satisfactions of family, though the world according to Gordon was quite different from Irving's literary Astrodome. Readers of Final Payments found themselves in a small house in a working-class neighborhood of Queens, Archie Bunker country without one-liners. The heroine, Isabel Moore, had spent all of her 20s caring for her invalid father, a man impacted...