Word: assassin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Communists looked for a reliable assassin, picked one Trinh Van Minh, 25, a fanatical member of IndoChina's noisy, party-lining Patriotic Youth Society. Trinh Van Minh was in jail on charges of being a Viet Minh terrorist, but the Patriotic Youth Society put pressure on the Viet Nam government to set him free. French police warned that the Patriotic Youth Society was infiltrated by Communists, and dangerous. But the Viet Nam government, anxious to win the support of the Youth Society, released Trinh Van Minh...
Broadcast Death. The first King of Jordan, one of the Arab world's few statesmen, fell to the ground. Five accomplices of the assassin fired into the roof of the mosque, and the crowd of worshipers stampeded. (The microphones of Radio Jerusalem in the mosque were connected, carrying the sound of the shots to thousands who had tuned in to listen to the prayers.) Abdullah's body was trampled in the panicky rush. The accomplices, including a young boy who had been standing by with a reserve clip of ammunition, managed to get away. The murderer, according...
Italy's Communist Boss Palmiro Togliatti. who was pinked three times by an assassin in 1948, got a token of esteem from the Skoda steel works: a bulletproof Skoda limousine. Such a gift, said the beaming Togliatti, "*is proof of the industrial ability and excellent workmanship of Czechoslovakia, working...freely to put out cars for the common man at a time when capitalist industry is concentrating on brutal rearmament...
Died. King Abdullah Ibn-Hussein, 69, Arab ruler of the Kingdom of Jordan; by an assassin's bullet; in Old Jerusalem (see FOREIGN NEWS...
...Malik spoke to his American listeners not in Russian but in English, heavily accented but clear. For another, the speech had been stripped of the more heavy-handed terms normally used by the Russian oratory: no one was called a "lackey" or "assassin" or "barbarian...