Word: assassinate
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...Dominicana has always had a big Haitian audience for its 8 o'clock Spanish music broadcast. One night last week, the station changed the program without notice. Instead of Spanish rhythms, startled Haitians heard a bland, firm voice calling for the overthrow of "that bloodthirsty, dishonest, cowardly assassin," Haitian President Dumarsais Estim...
...Phone Call. The assassin, hustled off to jail, was a 21-year-old veterinary student named Abdel Meguid Ahmed Hassan. He was also a member of the Moslem Brotherhood, a fanatical religious-political organization, a million strong, of whom half are Egyptians. Nokrashy Pasha had won its sworn enmity. A few weeks ago a telephone call brought him news that the brotherhood had assassinated Cairo's police chief. As he put down the phone, Nokrashy paled and clutched at his heart. Promptly he banned the brotherhood, knowing that his action might bring about his own assassination...
...line of march ended at Abbasiya, a suburb of Cairo, where Nokrashy was laid to rest in a mausoleum side by side with his old friend, Ahmed Maher Pasha, who as Egypt's Premier in 1945 had also gone down under an assassin's bullet...
Died. Mahmoud Fahmy El Nokrashy Pasha, 60, Premier of Egypt; by an assassin's bullet; in Cairo (see FOREIGN NEWS...
There is an ironic epilogue two years later when the Russians are about to take over the country. The coalition that the purists once abhorred they now themselves enter. Hoederer has become a party martyr, and his assassin a marked...