Word: assassine
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What has changed, especially in the past few years, is that assassination has become an official form of warfare. National leaders like Libya's Gaddafi and Syria's Assad announce open season on their enemies, and whether or not they actually hire the hit men or, more likely, merely encourage assassins by their lusty rhetoric, they leave little doubt of their connivance. Not far from where Mr. Tabatabai met his postman, former Chilean Ambassador Orlando Letelier was blown apart on Embassy Row in 1976. The day before the Tabatabai assassination, former Syrian Prime Minister Salah Eddin al-Bitar...
...revolution, and the political leadership of the Soviet Union has still not developed a tradition or institution to assure a smooth transfer of authority. The U.S.S.R. is a nation where supreme power changes hands only through death or coup. Vladimir Lenin's demise was hastened by an assassin's bullet. There is a lingering, but unproven, suspicion that Joseph Stalin was murdered. Georgi Malenkov and Nikita Khrushchev were ignominiously ousted from office. What fate is in store for the collective leadership now ruling the U.S.S.R.? Sovietologists agree that the oldsters clustered around President Leonid Brezhnev in the Kremlin...
...also rejected the belief of local officials that the rifleman was a professional assassin who had been stalking Jordan. Investigators noted that the gunman amateurishly left behind a shell casing from a .30-06 bullet. Moreover, said Roger Young, the bureau's official spokesman in Washington, hitting Jordan would have been an easy matter for even an average marksman, particularly if the rifle had a telescopic sight; the big man (6 ft. 4½ in., 225 Ibs.) was only 40 yds. away from the matted grass where the assailant lay in ambush...
...hospital, the spacious lobby quickly filled with reporters, politicians, black leaders and pajama-clad patients, several of them in wheelchairs. Jesse Jackson suggested, despite a total lack of evidence, that Jordan might have been the first on an assassin's "hit list" of black leaders. Jackson maintained that Jordan's wound was "seemingly well placed by a professional, which is a political statement." He called on the nation's blacks to stay calm. Said Jackson: "We don't want another 1968 [when riots followed King's murder]. We need leadership. We must respond to this...
...former martial law commander, General Chung Seung Hwa. Chun has insisted, "I have no political ambitions," but he added to his personal power last month by appointing himself acting chief of the Korean Central Intelligence Agency, a key post formerly held by Kim Jae Kyu, Park's convicted assassin. In a three-hour talk with TIME Tokyo Bureau Chief Edwin M. Reingold and Correspondent S. Chang in Seoul last week, shortly before the army crackdown, Chun showed little eagerness for lifting martial law soon, and warned of a new military threat from North Korea. Excerpts from the conversation...