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...other man in Nicaragua to do it," Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza took command of the Nicaraguan National Guard when the U.S. Marines pulled out in 1933, parlayed his talents into dictatorship, a string of coffee plantations and cattle ranches into a $60 million fortune, was killed, at 60, by an assassin in September...
...prisoner's dock in Paris' ancient Palais de Justice last week stood a pale, emotionless young Algerian named Mohammed ben Sadok, on trial for his life. Before the case got to judgment, France learned once again that the political assassin often carries his prosecutor with him before the bar of justice...
Last spring Assassin Ben Sadok, mingling with the crowd pouring from Colombes Stadium after a championship soccer game, shot and killed 60-year-old All Chekkal, onetime vice president of the Algerian National Assembly and one of France's most vocal supporters in North Africa (TIME. June 10), as he walked toward his car with Paris' director-general of police. In court last week 26-year-old Ben Sadok offered a highly literate defense (his favorite authors: Stendhal, Victor Hugo, Holland. Sartre, Camus). He denied that he had any connection with the rebellious Algerian F.L.N., explained that...
Died. Prince George of Greece, 88, handlebar-mustached uncle of King Paul of Greece and Britain's Prince Philip, a onetime vice admiral who won fame in 1891 when he disarmed a would-be assassin of his cousin, Russia's Grand Duke Nicholas (later Czar Nicholas II); after long illness; in Saint-Cloud, France...
...talk of Nicaragua last week was a poem. Honoring the memory of assassinated Dictator Anastasio ("Tacho") Somoza-and reminding Nicaraguans that his dynasty continues in his sons-the government newspaper Novedades offered $140 for the best verse of homage to the dead President. The winning entry was 14 lines of flowery verse ("Renowned paladin and cavalier/Glory of America!"). Managua's citizens, by and large, read it glumly, but here and there a face lit up with malicious appreciation. Novedades' editors ran the poem (which was signed with a pen name) for several days-until they, too, noticed that...