Word: sociopath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When an assassination attempt is made, it is usually the work of a dissident political faction and not the outburst of a sociopath. In Greece, for example, where political passions still foam fiercely in the wake of the restoration of democracy after seven years of military rule, at least five times last fall Prime Minister Constantine Caramanlis moved out of his official residence onto a yacht that was never anchored in the same harbor for more than one night. It was suspected that plotters out to restore another right-wing dictatorship were trying to kill him. Authoritarian regimes...
...Sunday, a national bestseller by Thomas Harris (Putnam; $7.95), supposes an attempt to obliterate a Super Bowl football game (hurrah!) along with (alas!) both teams, the TV play-by-play and color men, beer vendors, pigeons, Pinkertons and some 100,000 spectators, including the President of the U.S. The sociopath who plans this provocation is not an Arab but a defecting American named Lander, who went sour while serving time as a P.O.W. in North Viet Nam. Now he pilots the advertising blimp that floats (aha!) above every important football contest. To get all the plastic explosive he needs, Lander...