Word: assassi
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...unit's main task will be to uphold the country's revised criminal code, which is designed to make prosecutions easier, and to investigate death-squad murders. The first case on their blotter: the 1980 assassi nation of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Ro mero. Former U.S. Ambassador to El Salvador Robert White has accused Roberto d'Aubuisson, Duarte's rightist opponent in last month's elections, of masterminding that murder, although the charge has never been proved. "Nobody is going to be above the law in this government," Duarte told TIME. "If Roberto d'Aubuisson...
...last Russian chief of state to visit Italy arrived in danger of assassi nation, spent the entire time in a secluded castle near Turin and never even got to Rome. That was in 1909, and Czar Nicholas II had plenty to fear from the Italian left. Last week, as So viet President Nikolai Podgorny began a week-long tour of Italy, the climate was different. Italy, after all, has the West's largest Communist Party (1,541,000 members), and one Italian in four votes Communist in national elections. Podgorny's route was punctuated by a few bomb...
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