SOUTHLAND : Quayle Hit by Thrown Papers
Vice President Dan Quayle was struck in the head today with a rolled up batch of papers thrown by a man who shouted to him as he got into his limousine on Capitol Hill.
The vice president was not hurt, and was taken away in his limousine, said his press secretary, David Beckwith.
The assailant was apprehended by Secret Service and Capitol police officers. Secret Service spokesman Allan Cramer said Mwenea Sikuzote of St. Thomas, Virgin Islands, was charged with assaulting the vice president.
“The guy shouted ‘I have documents!’ and proceeded to throw same” as the vice president emerged from the Hart Senate Office Building from his weekly lunch with GOP senators, Beckwith said.
The man was about 20 feet from Quayle’s limousine behind a small cement barrier. Quayle, who was getting into the car, looked up and the flying roll of papers glanced off his head after first striking the car, the spokesman said.
One of the papers appeared to be a letter to President Bush and Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev, one official said.
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