Word: assassine
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...witness told CBS that she got an anonymous call saying: "We know your husband's talking to CBS." Dominican representatives in the U.S. refused to participate. One informant led CBS sleuths to his apartment to hear a recording in which by his account Galíndez' alleged assassin was identified. When they arrived the tapes had been stolen. CBS's frightening story within a story was manifest everywhere in the broadcast, and punctuated at the end by the fretful voice of the late Gerry Murphy's fiancee, Sally Ciare: "Even now, in Kansas...
...enforcement agencies of New York were upset, as Costello would probably get to his assassin before the police--unless the assassin was killed by his disgusted employers first. One way or the other, the police stood to lose. Hopefully, they issued a description of a "torpedo" who weighs two hundred and thirty-five pounds, has a "pot belly," and "waddles when he walks...
...July 1951 an embittered Palestinian refugee waylaid old King Abdullah as he went to pray at Jerusalem's sacred Mosque of the Rock. There was a clatter of shots and the stouthearted old King fell dead. One of the assassin's bullets ripped a medal from the chest of 15-year-old Hussein as he walked beside his grandfather. It was a deed that Hussein can never let himself forget...
Beyond the fact that he was a Syrian named Izzat Shaath, the Lebanese did not learn much about Jedid's assassin. Cornered in a nearby apartment building, Shaath waged a Chicago-style gun battle with 200 policemen for half an hour. Finally, wounded and out of ammunition, he tried to surrender, only to be shot through the heart by another Syrian-one who said he was a friend of Colonel Jedid...
...learned the slashing swordsmanship of the Arab horseman; and as late as 1929, young Prince Saud was dealing with a domestic crisis by the simpler method of chopping off the heads of captured tribesmen. Once he saved his father's life by leaping between him and an assassin, taking the descending knife in his shoulder. Saud's concepts of government were formed in a land where there are few inner boundaries, and sheiks control not a domain but a tribe constantly on the move as their flocks wander in search of pasture. The Old Lion ruled them through...