Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Mandela was far enough from the crowd to distract the aim of a potential assassin...
Weston fits another profile the Secret Service is used to encountering. Potential assassins, especially delusional ones, often change targets, making it difficult to predict who is in danger. Only after Arthur Bremmer shot and seriously wounded presidential candidate George Wallace in 1972 did the Service learn--from Bremmer's diary--that the would-be assassin had stalked Nixon before turning to the less protected Wallace. So it was with Weston. He made threats against a President, but he took his gun to Capitol Hill...
...weaknesses--psychological as well as physical--of his opponents. In the end, he emerged as the rarest of players: one without a weakness--and a player who thrived and hungered for big games. To Danny Ainge, who played against him and coached against him, Jordan was the ultimate assassin--"he comes not just to kill you but to cut your heart...
Bill Clinton must really have it in for Janet Reno. Why else would the President saddle the Attorney General with the thankless task of reviewing "new evidence" presented by the family of Martin Luther King Jr. about his assassination 30 years ago? The King family claims that convicted assassin James Earl Ray, who died last week, was just a fall guy caught up in a sweeping conspiracy that included then President Lyndon Johnson, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, J. Edgar Hoover, several army units, organized crime figures, the owner of a Memphis diner and, one presumes, space aliens. Talk about...
...course of Assassin, players are oftenforced onto impromptu battle-fields. Cammy'spersonal moment of glory came as he lunged fromhis room, ambushing a fellow player as he entereda Quincy elevator...