Word: assassins
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Receding Threats. It was an aim both more difficult and more inspiring than "containment." For the world holds more ills than Soviet Russia-a fact of which the U.S. was sharply reminded last week by the truculent Egyptians and an assassin's bullet in Pakistan. A year ago, the real meaning of these reminders would have been drowned out in the clamorous urgency of dealing with the threat of world Communism. But as the immediate Soviet threat recedes, the U.S. can understand that the challenges it faces in the Near and Middle East (and also in the Far East...
...time as a general in the Civil War, but resigned from the Army because he was an epileptic. His most notable service as Minister to Rome was to help bring about the arrest and extradition of John H. Surratt, of Surrattsville, Md., who conspired with Lincoln's assassin, John Wilkes Booth. Surratt had fled to Rome and joined the Papal Zouaves. He was never convicted, but his mother, Mary E. Surratt, was hanged for aiding Booth. King, an editor of the Milwaukee Sentinel and Gazette and a leader in the movement for an expanded public-school system, said that...
...town of Rawalpindi, on the precarious frontier where India and Pakistan contend for the rich prize of Kashmir, an assassin's bullets rang out this week. They hit and fatally wounded Liaquat Ali Khan, 56, the chubby, able and moderate Prime Minister of Pakistan as he was making a speech to a crowded meeting. His assassin, a Moslem fanatic of a sect which favors holy war against India, was reportedly "torn to pieces" by the crowd...
...Pakistan as a state in the 1947 partition of India, and succeeded Jinnah as its ruler. In the restive world of Islam, where the way of the moderate is hard, he was the 13th political figure since 1945, and the fifth this year, to be brought down by an assassin...
...bugles, there was an explosion. Five men fell to the ground: General Chanson and Governor Thanh, mortally wounded, died within the hour. Two other French officers were seriously hurt. The fifth man, his abdomen ripped open, one hand and one leg completely torn away, was Trinh Van Minh, the assassin; he died within minutes...