Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Many of them suspected that he might agree to a peaceful settlement with Israel; one of the Israeli emissaries who once slipped into Jordan in Arab disguise to plead with the King was Golda Meir. A Palestinian gunman killed Abdullah at Jerusalem's historic Al Aqsa mosque. The assassin also fired at Grandson Hussein, who was standing beside Abdullah, but the bullet ricocheted off a medal on his uniform. Abdullah was succeeded by Hussein's father, Talal. But after one year, schizophrenia overcame Talal, and Hussein, 18, was proclaimed monarch...
...Habash's absence, emerged as a clear spokesman for the P.F.L.P. That made almost any remark by an individual commando appear to be a Front demand. One hijacker aboard the Pan American 747, for instance, told passengers that the Front would demand freedom for Sirhan B. Sirhan, convicted assassin of Senator Robert F. Kennedy. The assertion was quickly denied by other Popular Front members...
...photographer, an ostensible failure, who is always in the right place at the right time yet always gets the wrong picture. He is on the Lusitania, but shoots only the horizon and a snip of the bow as the ship goes down; he is present at a political assassination, but records only the assassin's coattails; he was present when the flag was raised at Iwo Jima, but handed his camera to someone else while he helped the Marines put up the colors. "Maybe he is only unsuccessful in terms of the majority report," Plimpton asserts...
AMONG superstitious Arabs, the young King of Jordan is regarded with particular awe because of his uncanny gift for survival. Small wonder. As a teenager, Hussein narrowly escaped the assassin's bullets that cut down his grandfather King Abdullah outside Jerusalem's Al Aqsa mosque. Since mounting the chronically shaky throne in 1953, Hussein, now 34, has repeatedly evaded bullets and bombs...
...remembered mainly for what was not said. L.B.J. exercised his contractual right with CBS, and forced the deletion of remarks he had made about the Warren Commission's findings on grounds of national security. In the excised portion, Johnson expressed lingering doubts about the commission's "single assassin" finding...