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...West Germany, Greece and Lebanon by Gaddafi-anointed hit squads. Most of the victims were little-known private citizens, and it is doubtful that they posed a threat to Tripoli. Instead, their killings were presumably intended to set an example. So Byzantine are Gaddafi's methods that when Libyan Hitman Abdel Nabih Swaiti, who was tried and convicted for attempting to kill a Libyan exile in Rome last June, was found dead of a heart attack in his jail cell two weeks ago, Gaddafi was immediately suspected of being behind his death. The reason: Swaiti may have been poisoned first...
...something of a surprise, then, when it comes time to listen to the music. Why, this is no hitman or rapist perverting the meaning of Christmas! Instead, it sounds like someone held a microphone to your father as he shoveled snow one day last Janaury and sung a few tunes under his breath. You get the feeling that someone called Slim one day and said, "Slim, if you're not busy, why don't you take a half-hour or so and come on down to the studio and record a Christmas album?" And Slim...
Scene 3: Michel Poniatowski, the corpulent former minister of the interior known to friend and foe alike as "Ponia," was taking part in a televised debate before the legislative elections. As defeated president Valery Giscard d'Estaing's confident "political hitman," Ponia is not popular. When he affirmed, "Giscard is now France's only hope; the Socialist project is doomed to failure," his discourse was punctuated by loud laughter and catcalls from the audience; debate moderator Jean-Marie Cavada asked for silence. Ponia struggled on, but Cavada interrupted with more election results to announce. "I have the figures from former...
...living things upon the land e'er seen by hitman eyes...