Word: assassinates
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...Your article calling for the return of the draft is an enormous step backward in the striving for a humane world. No renewal. American or other, should be based on blood. A man who specializes in killing other men-regardless of ideology-is an assassin. Forcing youths to do this is a crime...
Americans, contemplating both the inexpungeable crime of Kennedy's killing and the prevalence of violence in their proper perspective, can best maintain the proper processes of American political life by eradicating the conditions that trigger the assassin's finger...
...BROOKLYN has some chilling parallels to the far more publicized murder of Benigno Aquino Jr. as he arrived in the Philippines last month. Aquino, the most powerful and popular opponent of dictator Ferdinand Marcos, got a bullet in the head for defying Marcos' orders to remain in exile. The assassin was himself shot dead on the spot by Marcos troops, ensuring that no direct evidence about the source of the murder will ever come to light. The current anti-Marcos riots in the Philippines show that the ploy didn't work: it only increased suspicion that Marcos may have ordered...
Having lived in Manila as a foreigner for the past two years, I know the people are too scared to speak out against the corruption that goes on within the government. The lack of freedom experienced by Filipinos leads one to speculate on the true assassin of the former Senator. It is unsettling to think that a government possesses the power to cover up such an act. Carin E. Freeman Washington...
...possession of firearms and subversion, and three more years of exile in the U.S. Ignoring innumerable threats and an official death sentence against him, Aquino returned home on Aug. 21. Within 30 seconds of his arrival at Manila International Airport, he was murdered by a single shot from an assassin's .357 Magnum revolver...