Word: kill
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people begin dying and a storm prevents any escape from Indian Island, it becomes apparent that Mr. Owen is one of the guests and he plans to kill the entire company the same way the "Ten Little Indians" die in a framed nursery rhyme which hangs over the mantle of the living room...
...around assassinating foreign leaders," Helms explains now. "Not only for moral reasons but also because in the U.S. nothing can be kept secret for very long." He was right. During the following few years, a drumbeat of press stories and congressional investigations disclosed past attempts by the CIA to kill Congolese ex-Premier Patrice Lumumba, Cuba's Fidel Castro and other foreign leaders. Though apparently none of these plots succeeded, President Gerald Ford included the assassination ban in a 1976 public Executive Order regulating U.S. intelligence activities. Every President since has adopted the ban with little change...
Senior U.S. officials admit that the curb on assassinations did not rule out American assistance to the plotters in Panama. Ironically, one reason the coup failed is that the goal was only to force Noriega into retirement, not to kill him. Still, there is a potential conflict with the ban if the U.S. supports a coup in which the death of foreign leaders, though not intended, is likely. CIA director Webster last week proposed an effort to define the policy more clearly so that CIA officers "can go right up to the edge of that authority and not worry...
...short, we just don't do that kind of thing. But what exactly don't we do? Kill people in the national interest? Sorry, we do it often. As a denial of the obvious -- that we do in fact do that kind of thing, and sometimes must do it -- the assassination ban can be seen as an unhealthy expression of national naivete, or as a healthy expression of a national ideal that can't always be met in practice. Even from the latter point of view, though, its practical effect is unclear. Does this hypocritical ban on killing...
What kind of rebel officers risk their lives to storm the lair of a hated military dictator, capture him at gunpoint, decline either to kill him or to turn him over to U.S. forces standing by to receive him, then let him contact his mistress, who calls loyal troops to his rescue...