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Malcolm X was killed by a black man. George Wallace was allegedly shot by a follower-though Arthur Bremer was evidently bird-dogging other candidates with aimless hostility. The list is endless: personal peril now climbs aboard the Queen Elizabeth 2, hides in a locked apart ment-or in a suburban shopping center as it did recently when a janitor gunned down a handful of strollers in North Carolina. If the earth is unsafe the air bristles with danger. Skyjackings create such anxiety that last week, when four black men seized a Western Airlines jetliner, it was easy to believe...
...chilling postscript to the affair, it turned out that the would-be assassin, Arthur Bremer, was stalking not only Governor George Wallace. Authorities learned soon after the shooting that in early April Bremer had registered at New York's Waldorf-Astoria at the same time Hubert Humphrey was supposed to have been there. Humphrey, as it happened, had canceled his trip. Last week a picture was released of Bremer in Ottawa later in April in a crowd outside Parliament, while inside, President Nixon was appearing with Prime Minister Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Bremer had stayed in the city...
...Bremer is now in custody, the President was safe in Moscow last week, and Wallace was in the hospital making considerable progress-both medically and politically. The Alabama Governor had experienced what doctors described as "involuntary muscular sensation" in his toes, and vital signs remained stable. Whether or not the plucky presidential candidate makes good his promise to appear at the Democratic National Convention in July, however, largely depends on the results of an operation to remove the remaining .38-cal. bullet lodged in his spinal canal...
...Bremer's teacher wrote: "An excellent creation of the troubled young man of today's and yesterday's world. You can be very proud of this work!" The grade marked on the paper...
...sooner had the bullets from Arthur Bremer's pistol found their mark in George Wallace than another kind of withering fire was directed at the U.S. Declared New York Mayor John Lindsay: "The insane attack upon George Wallace is yet another terrible and inevitable example of the violence of our nation. From the needless neglect of our most pressing national needs, we have reaped a harvest of division, despair and death." In his New York Times column, Tom Wicker searched for an explanation of the assassinations among "violent western movies, the organized violence of professional football, the endless lines...