Word: assassins
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...plunging the blade deep into Asanuma's 225-lb. bulk. It pierced his lower abdomen and liver. The thudding collision sent Asanuma's speech notes sailing through the air, jarred off the student's glasses. Then, in a kind of macabre dance, dying politician and youthful assassin fell away from each other. The observant camera caught...
...assassination last week indicated that the threat to parliamentarianism has never been eradicated. It was third in a series of attempts made on eminent political figures since last June. The first assassin, attacking the life of a moderate Socialist leader, had no relations with a rightist group, and except for his hatred of the Zengakuren, he committed his act in a schizophrenic fit. The second attacker, aiming at Kishi, had no intention of killing him, but wanted merely to punish the prime minister for having "clumsily handled the problems of the Liberal Democratic Party." The third incident differed from...
After the OAS voted sanctions, the extremists, led by Trujillo's onetime secret police chief, John Abbes García, gained the ascendancy. Abbes, a combination court assassin and court jester who knows how to fawn on Trujillo's ego, took the bit in his teeth as Trujillo gave him rein. Powerful Radio Caribe, an ostensibly private radio station actually run by Abbes' henchmen, began attacking the Balaguer regime for being weak-kneed against the OAS. With the afternoon newspaper La Nación, also linked to Abbes, it "demanded" that Trujillo take over the presidency...
...fire with a pistol as the Shah was handing out diplomas at Teheran University. Three shots drilled the Shah's hat, another creased his lip and right cheek and, as he dived to the ground, a fifth hit him in the left shoulder. Bodyguards riddled the would-be assassin, and the Shah next day grimly returned from the hospital to the throne, declaring: "My will is unrelenting...
...reporter covers the trial of a dictator's assassin in Touch of Guilt, adapted from an Eric Ambler novel. Color...