Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Memphis motel balcony, blacks standing over a fallen black man, their faces abruptly up, and their fingers stabbing the air, indicting the air, along the line the shot had taken, as if the trajectory of their fingers' aim could bore back through the air to the assassin...
...Pennsylvania-based Consumer Party. -- HUEY P. NEWTON, cofounder of the Black Panthers served three years in prison for shooting an Oakland policeman. In and out of jail since, he was released from San Quentin this summer after serving two months for parole violations. -- JAMES EARL RAY, convicted assassin of Martin Luther King Jr., was sentenced to 99 years in prison. He escaped briefly in 1977 and continues to maintain that he was framed by the FBI. -- DAN ROWAN, cohost of Laugh-In, died in 1987 of lymphatic cancer. -- MARK RUDD, Columbia University student radical, spent 7 1/2 years...
Citing Turner's versatility as one of her chief strengths, Dwyang noted that she has played roles as diverse as a love-struck novelist in "Romancing the Stone," a mafia assassin in "Prizzi's Honor," and a wholesome small-town teenager in "Peggy Sue Got Married...
...Palme and his wife attended the night of his death. And now Pettersson's roommate has undermined the suspect's alibi that he was on his way home at the time of the shooting. Swedish newspaper reports say he possessed a large-caliber weapon and limped just as the assassin was seen to do while fleeing the scene of the murder. No motive for his alleged act has been announced...
...window slams down on his fingertips. Nordberg's partner, Lieut. Frank Drebin (Leslie Nielsen), solemnly swears revenge. But before he has * brought the evil Vincent Ludwig (Ricardo Montalban) to justice, Drebin must do business with a killer fish, a body-stocking condom, a ballplaying assassin (Reggie Jackson) and the Queen of England. As Frank could tell you, it's the same old story: "Boy finds girl. Boy loses girl. Girl finds boy. Boy forgets girl. Boy remembers girl. Girl dies in a tragic blimp accident over the Orange Bowl on New Year...