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...Josef Hartmann, 60, the horror would evolve into an even stronger, more lasting vision. A civil servant from Mōmlingen, West Germany, on a tour of Italy with his wife Erna, Hartmann was in St. Peter's Square taking pictures of the Pontiff from behind, when shots rang out from the Browning 9-mm semiautomatic pistol of Mehmet Ali Agca. Two weeks later, Hartmann and his wife were showing slides of then-vacation to their son Wolfgang, 33, a schoolteacher. Wolfgang immediately spotted what his parents had missed: perhaps the most chilling photographic record of the attempted assassination...
...aware of a bearded, athletic-looking young man in a black leather jacket who was approaching down the sidewalk. But Chapman sensed no danger until the man thrust his hand into his jacket and started after him. Chapman dodged around his car and ducked for cover as seven shots rang out. Two 7.65-cal. bullets from the gunman's semiautomatic Beretta pistol slammed into the right rear fender of the car, and another hit the right rear side, but Chapman and his driver escaped unhurt...
After his defeat, Benn tried to see the bright side: "It is a victory because from the very beginning right through to the end we have won the argument." But the words rang hollow a few hours later, when the Brighton conference rejected a Benn-backed resolution calling for Britain to pull its troops out of Northern Ireland. Subsequent votes turned down leftist proposals on nationalization and withdrawal from NATO. But a conference vote for unilateral nuclear disarmament fell just short of the two-thirds majority necessary to make it mandatory policy in the party manifesto. Then it voted overwhehningly...
...York, the biggest stock exchange of them all, was the last to open. As soon as the 10 a.m. trading bell rang on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, the selling pandemonium continued. The Dow Jones industrial index slumped 14 points in the first 30 minutes, and the morning edition of the New York Post proclaimed, WORLD STOCK MARKET PANIC. Said Gary Ross, research director for the Wood Gundy brokerage firm: "Our retail customers were phoning in panic-stricken...
When the bell rang for the 14th round, Leonard came out of his corner like a shot, racing over to tag Hearns with a huge left hook before the Hit Man could step out of his path. After 1 min. 45 sec. of blows that Hearns was powerless to return, Referee Pearl stopped the fight. Hearns, who had been ahead on points with all three judges at that moment, looked on incredulously. "I thought I was in pretty much control," he protested later. Said Angelo Dundee, Leonard's manager: "Tommy Hearns was out of it. He didn...