Word: assassine
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...Government employees he doesn't like, said Truman. "When he said he had information from the FBI," a reporter asked, "do you think he was telling the truth?" Countered Truman: Does he ever tell the truth? He doesn't need information to become a character assassin. Then the President glared and said that he was not talking with immunity from law suit...
...succession of Premiers, the strong man of Syria has been a small, thin, professional soldier named Colonel Adib Shishekly. Shishekly, 44, now Syria's chief of staff, came to power through a coup in December 1949, and has been living dangerously ever since. Last year a would-be assassin took a pot shot at him; today, Shishekly maintains three houses, sleeps in a different one each night. A morose, short-tempered man who shuns publicity, he has been content to run the show from the background. Last week, for the first time, he came out into the open...
...still sticks to regional history, but his regions are selected from all over the U.S. Well on his way toward making the past as readable as the present, he tries to keep an even balance between things (Conestoga wagons, railroads, the American eagle), places and people (Garfield's assassin, Lincoln as a horse tamer), and events (Tippecanoe, the Bear Flag revolt). Newton, who is also a director of Massachusetts' famed Old Sturbridge Village (TIME, Nov. 5), puts out the magazine in his spare time with the help of only one paid hand. He wangles free manuscripts from members...
...assassin's Afghan origin might explain his motive-but Afghanistan hastily pointed out that he had been driven out of Afghanistan in 1944 for conspiring against the government. The other possibility was that he belonged to a sect advocating war with India over Kashmir...
...hired assassin has no friends. Mustafa Shukri Asho, who killed King Abdullah of Jordan last July, had expected to escape under cover of grenades thrown by fellow conspirators, but no grenades were thrown. His fellow conspirators had planned that Asho should be killed by guards' bullets. On his dead body was found an Arab talisman bearing the words: "Kill, thou shalt be safe." In 1942 the Macedonian who attempted to murder Franz von Papen, then Nazi Ambassador to Turkey, was given a contraption (allegedly by Soviet agents) which, he was told, would produce a smoke screen to cover...