Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Louis Rwagasore, 31. Belgian-baiting Crown Prince and newly elected Premier of Urundi, southern half of the trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi, which is scheduled for independence in 1962; of an assassin's bullet; in Usumbura, Urundi...
Died. David Beresford Pratt, 54, wealthy, English-born Transvaal farmer and would-be assassin who in April 1960 fired two bullets into the head of South African Prime Minister Hendrik F. Verwoerd (who recovered), was later declared by a court to be "unfit" to stand trial; by his own hand (strangulation with a bed sheet); in a Bloemfontein, South Africa, mental institution...
...Judges of the Secret Court, by David Stacton. The author, a historical novelist (On a Balcony) of rare skill, writes a bitter account of the death of Assassin John Wilkes Booth and the trial and execution of the forlorn set of dupes and fools named as his fellow conspirators...
...with eyes blazing, vowed at his father's tomb to kill every one of the opposition. After the funeral, 1,000 suspected opponents of the regime were rounded up. Diaz' son was reported killed, and his wife held for torture; the government announced the death of one assassin, the capture of three others...
Died. Generalissimo Rafael Leonidas Trujillo Molina. 69, dictator of the Dominican Republic since 1930; by an assassin's bullet; near Ciudad Trujillo (see THE HEMISPHERE...