Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...certainly a bad week for Egypt's President Gamal Abdel Nasser. He lost a trusted friend and ally in the helicopter death of Iraq's President Abdul Salam Aref (see MILESTONES). In Yemen, a pro-Nasser Republican leader was shot down by an assassin. But Nasser's biggest trouble occurred right at home, and it was caused by the army, which is normally considered the strongest supporter of his regime. The government announced the arrest of 20 top officers on charges of plotting a coup. The word in Cairo was variously that the officers were at loggerheads...
...absolutely prove my son innocent. I can do it any time I want by going to Washington, D.C., with some pictures, but I won't do it that way. Because they've been so ugly to me and my boy . . . Now maybe Lee Harvey Oswald was the assassin. But does that make him a louse? No, no! Killing does not necessarily mean badness. You find killing in some very fine homes for one reason or another. And as we all know, President Kennedy was a dying man. So I say that it is possible that...
...AVENGERS (ABC, 10-11 p.m.). Premiere. More secret agents, British to be sure. Patrick Macnee and Diana Rigg play the two in this series. In "The Cyber-nauts," they track down an assassin who kills industrialists exclusively...
What should offend more movie-goers is his misuse of Mastroianni's fine acting ability. In a blond crew' cut, playing an action part, the actor is doubly out of his element, neither the suave cosmopolitan of his Fellini roles nor the credibly tough SPECTRE assassin he may be modeled after...
...they may defend themselves from the monster who appears on the horizon. I weep for the countless dead now rotting in the East. I will break the thunderbolts of war which menace from the skies." Eighteen months later, Jaurès was dead of bullets fired by a youthful assassin who found such pacifism unpatriotic. On the day of his burial-Aug. 4, 1914-World War I became general. Writes Historian Barbara Tuchman: "Overhead the bells he had invoked in Basle tolled for him and all the world, 'I summon the living, I mourn the dead...