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Word: assassinate (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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...stepped a killer, bearded fanatic Khalil Tahmassebi. Nearly two years ago he murdered Ali Razmara, Iran's ablest postwar Premier, and thus started Iran down its unhappy trail. Last week Tahmassebi was a free man, pardoned by Mossadegh's subservient Majlis and captive Shah. The young assassin promptly rushed to the Hazrat Abdolazim shrine, wept joyously and said: "When I killed Razmara, I was sure that his people would kill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Time of the Assassin | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Then he set out on a round of social calls. He dropped in for a cup of tea with evil old Mullah Kashani, spiritual chief of the fanatic nationalists, co-conspirator with Communists and the man Premier Mossadegh most fears. Kashani embraced the assassin, caressing his beard, and said: "You are a brave son of Islam." The two prayed while the teapot bubbled in the background...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Time of the Assassin | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Even Premier Mohammed Mossadegh asked the assassin to call. However, the wily old Premier refused to pose with Tahmassebi and barred photographers from the meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: IRAN: Time of the Assassin | 12/1/1952 | See Source »

Rumors continue to circulate that the 60-year-old Ho is dead as a result of 1) tuberculosis, 2) an assassin's bullet, 3) a French bombing raid, 4) a Red purge. The announcers who speak in Ho's name are impostors...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BATTLE OF INDO-CHINA: Comrade Van | 11/17/1952 | See Source »

...would-be assassin was Dov Shilanski, onetime inmate of Dachau concentration camp, later a member of the Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organization. When peace came to Israel, Shilanski became a terrorist without a target. He found a humdrum job as a clerk, slid out of sight for four years. Last spring, when the hard-pressed Jewish government sat down with the hated Germans to negotiate reparations, Shilanski took up his old tools and vowed to avenge the "betrayal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ISRAEL: The Terrorist | 10/20/1952 | See Source »

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