Word: assassinate
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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...
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...
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...
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...
...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...