Word: assassine
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...under a streetlight. In that brief instant, she got a good look at the person who only moments before may have gunned down Prime Minister Olof Palme. The woman turned out to be a portrait artist, and last week she helped police assemble a composite sketch of the suspected assassin. Copies of the computer- enhanced likeness were immediately transmitted around the world by wire services. Said Stockholm Police Commissioner Hans Holmer: "This is the first witness who has given us a face...
Zafir Masri, 44, obviously suspected nothing as he strolled from his home to the municipal offices in the Israeli-occupied West Bank city of Nablus on Sunday. Then, as the prominent Palestinian moderate and mayor stopped to chat with a local businessman, murder struck. At least one assassin walked up behind Masri and shot him three times in the back with a 7.65-mm pistol. Two of the bullets lodged in his heart. The unidentified hitman fled in the direction of the town's central market-place. Masri died shortly afterward...
Police had said Saturday they believed the assassin fired only one bullet, but on Sunday they reported finding a second bullet. They said one grazed Mrs. Palme and the other may have been the one that killed the prime minister...
Holmer told a news conference the couple decided on the spur of the moment to attend the movie, leading police to believe the assassin must have been keeping the prime minister under surveillance...
Also known as "killer," assassin first appeared on the campus about five years ago in the form of water guns. Playing the game with plastic disks is a recent development according to Wallace...