FAREWELL TO A PEACEMAKER : Assailant Slipped Through

Security apparently broke down, some observers say, when bodyguards mistook a young law student for a VIP driver and let him get close enough to shoot Rabin with a 9-millimeter Beretta. Questions were immediately raised about why Rabin was not wearing a bulletproof vest.

Rabin Shooting Scene

1) Rabin speaks at podium at 8 p.m.

2) He stands waving to the crowd.

3) He walks down stairs to get to car, amid crowd of dozens, at 9:30 p.m.

4) Shot entering car

5) Assailant pushed by dozens of police against wall

6) Assailant taken to police car

Clinton Updated on Yeltsin’s Condition

In diplomatic chitchat on the fringes of Yitzhak Rabin’s funeral, President Clinton was updated on the condition of Russian President Boris Yeltsin, who was hospitalized with a heart attack Oct. 26. Russian Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin, who represented the Kremlin at Rabin’s final farewell, informed Clinton that Yeltsin is feeling better and is on the way to recovery, White House spokesman Mike McCurry said. He added that the Russian president had instructed his deputy to also tell Clinton that he was looking forward to meeting him again. Yeltsin took ill in Moscow two days after a mini-summit with Clinton at the Hyde Park, N.Y. birthplace of President Franklin Delano Roosevelt.