Word: assassin
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year ago, Jorge Eliécer Gaitán fell to the pavement on Bogotá's Carrera Séptima, dead of an assassin's bullets. The death of Liberal Firebrand Gaitán touched off the bloody riots that Colombians now call el bogotanazo. To forestall possible trouble on the April 9 anniversary, Conservative President Mariano Ospina Pérez forbade mass meetings that day. Liberal leaders promptly called the faithful to memorial services on April...
...could shoot you, Bob Ford. But I won't. You see, I happen to know that Cynthia loves not you but Kelley. When she marries you she'll feel sorry for you, but she'll still love Kelley." With, that he backs, catlike, out of the saloon, leaving the assassin to his fate worse than death...
...Dominicana has always had a big Haitian audience for its 8 o'clock Spanish music broadcast. One night last week, the station changed the program without notice. Instead of Spanish rhythms, startled Haitians heard a bland, firm voice calling for the overthrow of "that bloodthirsty, dishonest, cowardly assassin," Haitian President Dumarsais Estim...
...line of march ended at Abbasiya, a suburb of Cairo, where Nokrashy was laid to rest in a mausoleum side by side with his old friend, Ahmed Maher Pasha, who as Egypt's Premier in 1945 had also gone down under an assassin's bullet...
Died. Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, 60, Premier of Egypt; by an assassin's bullet; in Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS...