Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Even the most ardent proponents of a conspiracy theory have assumed until now that the only would-be assassin in St. Peter's Square on May 13, 1981, was Mehmet Ali Agca, the Turkish terrorist apprehended seconds after the shooting. But when Martella was ordered to re-open the investigation into the assassination attempt in November 1981, there was already some uncertainty about whether two or three shots had been fired at the Pontiff. Confusion also surrounded a photograph, taken by a tourist immediately after the shooting, that shows a young man running from the square. That man, according...
...Rebecca Ryan novels, Adam McMann (Tom Conti). He thinks she's a put-on or a practical joke. She thinks he is her fictional right-hand man Dimitri. Doubts begin springing up in McMann's mind after he and Ryan/Palmer are sniped at few times by an unknown assassin. The imitation pulp heroine thinks it's all part of a plot involving a prominent French politician (Giancarlo Grannini), who would just as soon have nothing to do with the loony American...
...witness stand. Last November, for example, a military sharpshooter named Rolando De Guzman testified that while sitting with a SWAT team in a parked van on the tarmac, he saw Galman shoot Aquino near by. Instantly, said De Guzman, he pumped seven bullets into the alleged assassin. Then his colleagues began firing too. Tapes, however, revealed that De Guzman's testimony took no account at all of an opening flurry of five shots, which was followed, after 17 sec. of silence, by a second fusillade. Meanwhile, photographs showed "positively, unerringly and incontrovertibly" that there was no movement whatsoever...
Although Loterina was unable to see the rest of the assassin, his account agreed with the testimony of eight other civilians who placed Aquino and Galman in the wrong places at the wrong times for Galman to have shot the former Senator. "These witnesses had no reason to lie," said the memo. "If at all, they should normally have testified for the military version. After all, they could expect some form of retaliation if they wronged the soldiers with whom they were in daily contact...
...September afternoon in 1978, a middle-aged foreigner was jostled by a man with an umbrella. The encounter looked as harmless as the weather; in fact, it was to recall the more lurid adventures of 007. For the foreigner was Bulgarian Georgi Markov, the stranger was a hired assassin, and the umbrella tip held a pellet loaded with ricin, a deadly poison. The notorious "umbrella murder" occurred because of the information contained in this chilling memoir, written after the author's defection...