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Rumors continue to circulate that the 60-year-old Ho is dead as a result of 1) tuberculosis, 2) an assassin's bullet, 3) a French bombing raid, 4) a Red purge. The announcers who speak in Ho's name are impostors...
...would-be assassin was Dov Shilanski, onetime inmate of Dachau concentration camp, later a member of the Irgun Zvai Leumi terrorist organization. When peace came to Israel, Shilanski became a terrorist without a target. He found a humdrum job as a clerk, slid out of sight for four years. Last spring, when the hard-pressed Jewish government sat down with the hated Germans to negotiate reparations, Shilanski took up his old tools and vowed to avenge the "betrayal...
...fought against the Turks with T. E. (Seven Pillars of Wisdom) Lawrence in World War I, dealt deftly with the British and emerged as founder and first King of modern Iraq. He died in 1933. His brother Abdullah with British subsidies made a state out of arid Jordan. An assassin killed him a year...
...Rhee addressed 6,000 people at a meeting commemorating the second anniversary of the Korean war, an elderly Korean rose from his seat at the rear of the platform, advanced toward Rhee, a German automatic in hand. U.S. Lieut. Colonel Herbert Harmon stuck out his foot, tripping the assassin. As the Korean went down, Colonel Harmon clouted him in the neck, and another American officer disarmed the man. The silent scuffle escaped the crowd's notice, but Rhee's crony, Lee Bum Suk, the ambitious Home Minister, saw it all and interrupted his boss to tell the breathless...
...opponents of the Long dynasty had some interesting points to raise. Earl had carried on for the family after Brother Huey ("Kingfish") was cut down by an assassin in 1935, seven years after he had founded the line. Earl lost control when the citizens revolted and turned him out of the governor's office in 1940, but he staged a comeback in 1948. In the governor's chair once again, he out-Hueyed Huey and his "make every man a king" program. Earl gave the state big old-age pensions, cheap school lunches, veterans' bonuses and highway...