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Prosecutors say Fitzpatrick, 34, tipped off an FBI agent and agreed to inform on Shabazz last July after she let him in on her desire to kill Farrakhan, a man suspected by many--including Malcolm's widow Betty--of having something to do with her father's 1965 assassination. Friends of Shabazz's say Fitzpatrick, who was arrested for cocaine possession in late 1993, lured her into planning a crime so he could offer her up to prosecutors in return for leniency on the drug charge...
...Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy 1949-1975 (Harcourt Brace; 412 pages; $34.95) reveals just how much these two passionate minds had in common. To begin with, both thought the literary world a circus. The pages glitter with mad poets, deceitful lovers, long-suffering wives and natural-born snobs. The widow of George Orwell is quoted as having said, "Auschwitz, oh, dear no! That person was never in Auschwitz. Only in some very minor death camp...
Sophia Loren is mythic as Isabella de la Fontaine, the merry widow of recently deceased fashion czar Olivier de la Fontaine. In a world obsessed with interpreting fashion statements, her classic black funeral ensemble accessorized by a stiletto-red stole and umbrella-sized hat speaks volumes about her feelings for her husband. Everyone assumes that his death must have been a vindictive murder, until police discover that he was choked by a particularly malicious sandwich au jambon...
TIME Atlanta bureau chief Sylvester Monroe, who has reported extensively on Farrakhan, says that while the development is "incredible," the alleged plot's motive is obvious. Last summer, Malcolm's widow, Betty Shabazz, said publicly what she has always believed: that Farrakhan, a high lieutenant in the group at the time, was directly responsible for her husband's assassination. (Farrakhan has denied this, but admitted that members of the Nation of Islam - who were convicted of the murder -- might have taken his inflammatory rhetoric against Malcolm literally.) "That wound is still very much open," Monroe says...
...following stints in Los Angeles, Boston, Paris and Hong Kong. She was best known for her coverage of Filipino leader Benigno Aquino's assassination (her tape-recording of the shots that killed him became evidence at the murder trial) and of the subsequent "people power" rallies that swept his widow Cory to power. Burton had not been in China long when a similar street demonstration occurred -- with tragically different results -- at Tiananmen Square. But in quieter moments, Beijing's blanket of smog awakened in Burton a fascination with the contradictory imperatives of China's huge energy needs and its desire...