Word: assassine
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...liberation era" of Carlos Castillo Armas, the rebel colonel who threw a pro-Communist regime out of power in 1954 only to die of an assassin's bullet last July, came crashing to an end in Guatemala last week. An election staged by Castillo's successors to keep the liberator's Nationalist Democratic Movement (M.D.N.) in office turned out to have been so patently rigged that not even the government tried to uphold it. Harnessing popular anger over the fraud, the opposition candidate, General Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes, 62, made a tumultuous bid to take power...
...nefarious class enemy who used to be a hired assassin or saboteur and who, as in the fairy tales, finally gets his much deserved punishment...
...Alastair Sim is exactly the thing as the genial assassin. His simultaneously prunelike, condescending, and Machiavellian face and manner weave much distinguished nonsense in and out of the philosophic bomber's career--a career whose explosive beginning has included an overbearing headmaster, an overstuffed businessman, and an oversmug dictator. All were neatly vaporized before the war, during which the bomber quit his activities temporarily because killing dropped from an art to an occupation. When we meet him now, he is back in practice; his prey is Sir Gregory Upshott, an international water-muddier. Sim stalks him intently and wittily, particularly...
...billowing orange tribal robes, burst through police lines, capered up to the platform and reached out at him. Kicked and pummeled back into the crowd by the horrified Ulbricht's cops, after he had managed to shake hands with Khrushchev, the man turned out to be no assassin, but a Nigerian student on a round-the-world motor-scooter trip who had only wanted to hand Khrushchev a thank-you letter for his new Soviet visa...
Died. Carlos Castillo Armas, 42, President of Guatemala since 1954; by an assassin's bullet; in Guatemala City (see THE HEMISPHERE...