Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...staff (1935-39) of the French army, was in command of Maginot Line troops when France capitulated in 1940, escaped to Algiers, where he briefly joined De Gaulle's Committee of National Liberation. One of his most famous adventures was in 1934 in Marseille, when a Croat assassin attacked the car in which he was riding with Yugoslavia's King Alexander, killed the King (and France's Foreign Minister, Louis Barthou), wounded Georges while he tried to shield the King...
Once, when Falkenhausen was threatened with 'assassination in Brussels; he calmly issued a proclamation announcing that he would move to the ground floor of his headquarters, and listed the restaurants where he could be found after dark, to make the job for his assassin easier. The assassin never tried it. In 1944, after the plot on Hitler's life, the Gestapo arrested Falkenhausen; he has been in various jails ever since...
...behind the Premier, opened fire. The first pistol bullet, which struck the back of Ali Razmara's head, was enough to cause instant death. Two other bullets hit him in the neck and chest. The fourth shot wounded a policeman who was trying to grapple with the assassin.* Police said that Tahmassebi and three accomplices were trying to commit suicide when finally subdued...
Fine Impartiality. Assassin Tahmassebi is a carpenter, a reader of the Koran in the mosque, a member of a small xenophobic sect called Fadayan Islam (Crusaders of Islam) which, with fine impartiality, has been denouncing Truman, Stalin and Britain's George VI. Washington and London, which were shocked and worried by Razmara's murder, regarded Tahmassebi as a mere triggerman; the real instigator was assumed to be Ayatulla Kashani, head of Fadayan Islam and a member of a twelve-man "National Front" in the Majlis (parliament...
Only six weeks ago, Razmara carried enough weight in the Majlis to win an overwhelming vote of confidence. Within a few hours of his death, 15 members of the parliament's petroleum commission voted unanimously in favor of the assassin's program: nationalization...