Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1990-1990
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...Brooklyn-born rabbi spent his life preaching a doctrine of intolerance, racial hatred and violent confrontation. Last week he became a victim of Jewish-Arab animosity himself when he was gunned down by an assassin in a New York City hotel. Charged with Kahane's murder was El Sayid Nosir, an Egyptian- born New York City maintenance worker who became a U.S. citizen in 1989. Nosir, who was arrested after he was wounded in a shoot-out with a Postal Service officer, is believed to have acted alone...
...surgery, and as if that were not threat % enough, Muslim terrorists are offering $100,000 for his life. Pope Leo returns from the operation like Lazarus from the dead. But he is a changed man, with plans to alter his church for the better. It is then that the assassin moves in for the kill. No one but West would dare to mix irony, suspense and faith -- and get away with...
...Arnold really Arnold, or is Arnold really someone else? Or does Arnold just think he's someone else? Total Recall quickly becomes a futuristic version of Robert Ludlum's spy classic The Bourne Identity, in which the protagonist may or may not be the world's most dangerous political assassin...
Kovic is the first scheduled Class Day speaker to cancel. In 1968, an assassin killed the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. a little more than a month before King's scheduled Class Day appearance at Harvard. King was the first class Day speaker to be chosen by members of the sneior class...
...violence. The 1980s were tragic years that saw nearly a quarter of a million Americans die from handguns -- four times as many as were killed in the Viet Nam War. We began the decade by witnessing yet another President, Ronald Reagan, become a victim of a would-be assassin's bullet. That day my husband Jim, his press secretary, also became a statistic in America's handgun...