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...previous events can be any indication, expect under-cover agents wandering through the crowds, and observer (and possibly sniper) teams on nearby roof-tops...

Author: By Marc J. Ambinder, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Security Web Surrounds Mandela | 9/18/1998 | See Source »

...suits blaming the gun industry when its products are used in crimes or by careless third parties almost always fail. Just this spring a jury cleared a Tennessee company that sold a mail-order MAC-11 assault-pistol kit, the so-called MAC in a sack, used in a sniper killing on the Brooklyn Bridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Guns In The Courtroom | 7/6/1998 | See Source »

That may explain why Pepper keeps pushing his wild-eyed theories, even after they have been shown to be fabrications. In his 1995 book, Orders to Kill: The Truth Behind the Murder of Martin Luther King, Pepper claimed that a team of U.S. Army snipers was standing by in Memphis to shoot King if a Mafia hit man hired by the government had missed. Pepper wrote that army captain Billy Eidson, purported commander of the sniper team, could not be questioned because he had been murdered, presumably to assure his silence. Trouble is, Eidson is very much alive; he denies...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: James Earl Ray, Cause Celebre? | 5/4/1998 | See Source »

...Jonesboro, the finger-pointing continues. Gretchen Woodard, mother of 13-year-old accused killer Mitchell Johnson, tells TIME this week that her son was not the instigator of the sniper shooting that left four of his classmates and one of his teachers dead. ?Mitch told me he never meant to hurt anybody and he didn?t take specific aim,? Woodard told TIME reporter Sylvester Monroe. ?We don?t need to paint a rosy picture of Mitch. He knew right from wrong...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Jonesboro Mom: It Wasn't My Son's Idea | 4/6/1998 | See Source »

...bombmaking. Among its classic titles: Homemade C-4: A Recipe for Survival, a book whose discussion of ammonium nitrate Timothy McVeigh allegedly used to assemble the Oklahoma City bomb. Paladin also sells instructional videos like Winning a Street Knife Fight: Realistic Offensive Techniques and the fast-selling Advanced Ultimate Sniper. Lund makes no apologies for the information he disseminates. "As a human, I feel very sorry for anyone who's put through any physical suffering," he told the Wall Street Journal in 1993. "As a publisher and as a pragmatist, I feel absolutely no responsibility for the misuse of information...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MURDER BY THE BOOK | 12/1/1997 | See Source »

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