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...Georgy Malenkov had staged the whole sale slaughter of loyal party members in Armenia and Byelorussia; ex-Deputy Premier Lazar Kaganovich, who personally hand-picked Khrushchev from obscurity for his first major job in the '305 as secretary of the Moscow party committee, was assailed as a cruel assassin who had once rejected an old comrade's appeal by scrawling across it: "Only one punishment-death...
Died. Louis Rwagasore, 31. Belgian-baiting Crown Prince and newly elected Premier of Urundi, southern half of the trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi, which is scheduled for independence in 1962; of an assassin's bullet; in Usumbura, Urundi...
Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered), was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa, mental institution...
...Judges of the Secret Court, by David Stacton. The author, a historical novelist (On a Balcony) of rare skill, writes a bitter account of the death of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and the trial and execution of the forlorn set of dupes and fools named as his fellow conspirators...
Died. Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, dictator of the Dominican Republic since 1930; by an assassin's bullet; near Ciudad Trujillo (see THE HEMISPHERE...