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<text id=93TT1639>
<title>
May 10, 1993: Close Cut
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1993
May 10, 1993 Ascent of a Woman: Hillary Clinton
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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THE WEEK
SOCIETY, Page 26
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<p> A fanatic fan of Steffi Graf's stabs Monica Seles in the
back--literally
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<p> When a burly fan lunged out of the stands and stabbed
top-ranked tennis pro Monica Seles in the upper back during a
Hamburg tournament Friday, the first thought was of Balkan
politics. Seles was born in Serbia, and there have been threats
against her in the past. But the issue turned out to be
top-level tennis, not war. "He did not want to kill Monica
Seles," said a police spokesman. "He only wanted to injure her
so Steffi Graf could become No. 1 again." The assailant, a
38-year-old German lathe operator, nearly succeeded. His 4.5-in.
boning knife barely missed Seles' spinal cord, and it put a
1/2-in.-deep cut in the muscles of her upper back. Doctors at
a nearby hospital closed the wound and predicted that it would
heal quickly. Nevertheless, the wound put her out of the Hamburg
tournament--she was top seed and was leading Bulgarian
Magdalena Maleeva 6-4, 4-3 when she was stabbed--and trainers
were uncertain if she would be fit to defend her title May 24
in the French Open.
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