Word: assassinated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Bowen is not without political acumen, and he thought he had President Reagan's support for his new campaign. Not only has Reagan expressed sympathy for families with crushing medical burdens, he has also seen some of the consequences. Press Secretary James Brady, shot down by would-be Presidential Assassin John Hinckley, still needs considerable medical care, and his wife calls the costs for such care a "national problem crying for a solution." In the State of the Union message last February, the President formally asked Bowen "to address the problems of affordable insurance for those whose life savings would...
...first time in a courtroom setting under the rules of courtroom evidence. Real witnesses are examined by real attorneys, and the testimony is evaluated by a jury. The verdict: guilty of murder. Polled on a separate question, the jury decided by a majority vote that Oswald was the sole assassin...
About 200 House residents and adminstrators braved the brisk fall air yesterday to take part in the egg toss, tricycle race, dunk tank, dough-wrestling, assassin game and millipede-a-thon...
Participants also competed in assasin and themillipede-a-thon. In assassin, contestants try totrack down and "kill" one another with waterpistols. The millepede-a-thon pits five teammateswith their legs tied together in a race againstidentically handicapped opponents...
Alongside Superman these days is a revitalized phalanx of old superfolk -- Batman, Spider- Man, Wonder Wom- an -- and a host of newer, more ambivalent heroes, such as Viet Nam Soldier Ed Marks and the sultry Elektra, a machine- gun-toting assassin. The proliferation of new wonderfigures is impressive: some 250 different comic-book titles, largely in the heroic vein, will be sold in the U.S. this year, up from about 190 in 1985. With a combined circulation of roughly 150 million, the comics are more popular than at any other time since the early '50s. That in turn means heftier...