Word: assassins
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Police had said Saturday they believed the assassin fired only one bullet, but on Sunday they reported finding a second bullet. They said one grazed Mrs. Palme and the other may have been the one that killed the prime minister...
...game "assassin," in which students shoot at each other with plastic guns, is usually a source of amusement among college students...
...incident at the end of October, campus police, not realizing that the plastic guns were fake drew their real guns on several "assassin" players carrying fake guns...
...effort to stop the harassment associated with assassin, however, Wallace said that she distributed a letter last month to the residents of her residential area "to point out the potential dangers of the game." In her letter, she wrote that plastic guns pose a potentially life-threatening situation because they can be mistaken for real weapons...
Also known as "killer," assassin first appeared on the campus about five years ago in the form of water guns. Playing the game with plastic disks is a recent development according to Wallace...