Word: assassins
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...kill and counter-kill began when a nationalist assassin walked into the dining room of the Franco-Moslem club in downtown Algiers on Christmas Day, shot and seriously wounded Mohammed Ait Ali, council president of the Algiers department, and one of the few remaining Arab politicians who dare to show sympathy for the French. Three days later, in broad daylight on Algiers' busy and fashionable Rue Michelet, a nationalist gunman killed 74-year-old Amédée Froger, president of the Federation of Algerian Mayors and a militant leader of the French colons...
...Cyprus, where he had gone to cover the Egyptian fighting, 27-year-old Angus Macdonald of London's weekly Spectator fell last week under a Cypriot assassin's bullet, shot in the back on a Nicosia street. He was the third newsman to die in the Middle Eastern crisis. Ironically, his last dispatch argued "the bankruptcy of [Britain's Cyprus] policy of shoot first, negotiate afterwards...
...What shall we call him? Coward, assassin, savage, murderer of women and babies? Or shall we consider them all as embodied in the word fiend, and call him Lincoln, the Fiend...
...died, as Nicaragua's Ambassador to the U.S. Guillermo Sevilla Sacasa curtly put it, "of four bullets." A man of great personal charm, Somoza was also a no-nonsense dictator with many enemies; he was well aware of the danger of assassination, and usually went about well guarded. But in mixing with the people at a political rally and dance in the town of Leon, Tacho provided the fatal opportunity for a young Nicaraguan who was in appearance an innocent dancer but at heart an assassin bent on what he conceived to be glorious tyrannicide and a martyr...
...speech, Fuchs branded Richard Nixon as a "character assassin and a no-good demagogue." Fuchs went on to emphasize the great gains in the public opinion polls and in the elections of the last four years that Stevenson and the Democrats have made. "However," Fuchs added, "if I were a bookie, I'd have to lay 8-5 on Ike. Stevenson has just too much ground to make...