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Once, when Falkenhausen was threatened with 'assassination in Brussels; he calmly issued a proclamation announcing that he would move to the ground floor of his headquarters, and listed the restaurants where he could be found after dark, to make the job for his assassin easier. The assassin never tried it. In 1944, after the plot on Hitler's life, the Gestapo arrested Falkenhausen; he has been in various jails ever since...
...behind the Premier, opened fire. The first pistol bullet, which struck the back of Ali Razmara's head, was enough to cause instant death. Two other bullets hit him in the neck and chest. The fourth shot wounded a policeman who was trying to grapple with the assassin.* Police said that Tahmassebi and three accomplices were trying to commit suicide when finally subdued...
Died. Lieut. Colonel Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, 41, U.S.-trained (at Fort Leavenworth's Command & General Staff School) head of Venezuela's current military junta; by an assassin's bullet; in Caracas. Through the curious workings of Venezuelan politics, Chalbaud led the 1945 revolution which installed leftish Romulo Gallegos as President, three years later helped overthrow Gallegos, clamped army controls on the country, promised elections (but never got around to them), ruled precariously and without unified support even from the army...
...when an assassin shot at Roosevelt while he was in Miami, and killed Chicago's Mayor Anton Cermak instead, F.D.R. supplied an eyewitness account: "I heard what I thought was a firecracker; then several more ... I looked around and saw Mayor Cermak doubled up ... I called to the chauffeur to stop ... I motioned to have [Cermak] put in the back of the car ... I put my left arm around him and .my hand on his pulse, but I couldn't find any pulse. He slumped forward . . . That trip to the hospital seemed 30 miles long ... I said...
...body of one assassin, killed in front of Blair House on Wednesday, were found two letters bearing Campos' name. Campos surrendered early yesterday after tear gas bombs were thrown into his home...