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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...
...assassin, seated ten feet in front of the speaker's stand, tried to break and run, but the shouting, screaming mob leaped on him. Moslem National Guards thrust at him with their spears. Fingers scooped out his eyeballs. One of his arms was torn off. Later, after Liaquat had died in hospital (see NEWS IN PICTURES), police identified the dead assassin as Said Akbar, 29, an Afghan. The weapon he had used was a Mauser-type pistol, probably made by native craftsmen of the frontier, where gunmaking is a common household industry...
Police had two theories:1) Said Akbar was no solitary fanatic, but a hired assassin; 2) among his attackers were fellow conspirators who wished to silence...
...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...