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According to Olivas, the five khaki-uniformed guards who met Aquino aboard China Airlines Flight 811 were unarmed. As Aquino stepped off the plane, escorted by the guards, a single fatal bullet entered the nape of his neck and passed in a downward path through his chin. Seconds later, soldiers gunned down Rolando Galman, who, Olivas contended, had "suddenly darted toward [Aquino] and shot him from behind...
Clad in a simple khaki uniform without insignia, China's Commander in Chief and President rose to his feet from a sofa in the corner of the room. Slowly, without show of emotion, he made the announcement that all had expected: he would leave Nanking and go to his native home. Then in his choppy Ningpo accent he read from a formal statement: "With the hope that hostilities may be brought to an end and the people's suffering relieved, I have decided to retire...
...stocky young man in grey slacks, a blue pullover and khaki bush jacket stepped forward and knelt at Gandhi's feet. He was Nathu Ram Vinayak Godse, editor of the extremist newspaper Hindu Rashtra, which had denounced Gandhi as an appeaser of Moslems. "You are late today for the prayer," said the murderer...
Fifteen minutes after a rosy sun lifted over the pastures of Normandy, khaki-clad U.S. and British troops began to pour ashore-the British on the left near Havre, the Americans on the right near Cherbourg...
...that moment, a shot rang out, then two more. The reporters rushed to the windows in the plane's first-class compartment and saw Aquino lying face down on the pavement, a gaping hole in the back of his head. The khaki-clad guards who had taken him from the plane were nowhere to be seen, and the area was swarming with blue-uniformed AVSECOM troops. Next to a van, two of the troopers looked on as a third pumped at least eight bullets into the body of a man dressed in a blue Philippine Airlines maintenance worker...