Word: jackal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dictatorship with himself as a pocket Napoleon. "There could be massive bloodshed in a few days," warned Maurice Bishop, one of the opposition leaders beaten in the first attacks last year. "The population is not prepared to be ruled by any madman, and it is very clear the 'jackal'-as the populace now calls him-is simply not prepared to resign. I think he is certifiably...
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...even among the engineers of the Army Strategic Communications Command. Such skills are scarce even outside Government. Estimates of the number of people able to accomplish the task range from half a dozen to 1,000. Moreover, not even a qualified man with the nerve and skill of the Jackal would be enough. He would also have to be willing to leave himself open to criminal charges of tampering with evidence. "Whoever would do that would have to be crazy," says Mortimer Goldberg, technical operations supervisor at CBS Radio. In an Administration where apparently no skulduggery has been safe from...
...Petit-Clamart ambush-the factual starting point of Frederick Forsyth's otherwise fictional The Day of the Jackal-was De Gaulle's closest brush with assassins. It was, however, neither the first nor the last. According to a new book published in Paris, Objectif de Gaulle, there were at least 31 serious plots against the general's life, and dozens of others that never got beyond the talking stage. Indeed, even as the would-be killers of Petit-Clamart went on trial for their lives, police averted a sniper's attempt to shoot De Gaulle with...