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...President of Mexico sat facing an assassin who had just murdered the President Elect...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

President glared at Assassin as might lion at weasel. How to make the pale but unflinching weasel squeak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Must keep calm! | 7/30/1928 | See Source »

...great Stefan Raditch, uncle of Paul, and Leader of the Opposition, was the assassin's primary target but received only a bullet wound in the stomach from which he was said, last week, to be "rapidly recovering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: King & Raditches | 7/16/1928 | See Source »

...Assassin Ratchitch, whom no government deputy had seized from behind, put his fifth bullet with crack marksmanship into the stomach of Stefan Raditch, who crumpled as though felled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Throwback to Assassination? | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

...stopped Assassin Ratchitch as he walked from the Skupshtina. He called at the Ministry of the Interior, sent in his card. It was returned with the message that he would not be received. Hurrying on to a police station, Punica Ratchitch gave himself up. "I shot in self defense at the men I killed," he said, "I thought they were going to attack me. As for Stefan Raditch, I have always worked for the interest of the electorate and the King. I am sorry that I shall be unable to serve so well in future. I am ready...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YUGOSLAVIA: Throwback to Assassination? | 7/2/1928 | See Source »

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