Word: murder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...political effect of Mboya's murder will apparently be to strengthen the opposition to the government. Mboya himself had been in Kenyatta's Cabinet and a supporter of the government. But most Luos, led by Leftist Oginga Odinga, belong to the opposition Kenya People's Union. Along the entire route of the cortege, crowds shouted the defiant party rallying cry of "Dume! Dame!", which means bull, and refers to the K.P.U. party symbol. How badly the government will be hurt depends, of course, on how swiftly it can capture the assassin and on the discovery of which...
...proudly, "will withstand the pragmatic materialism of our time." Last week, though, Defregger was rudely reminded of quite a different aspect of his military career. The German newsweekly Der Spiegel broke the story that shortly before his consecration, the Frankfurt Crimes Department had investigated Defregger on suspicion of wartime murder...
...hard murder to forget. Thirty-eight people passively watched as a man stalked, stabbed and killed Kitty Genovese, 28, in the predawn darkness of the Kew Gardens section of New York City five years ago. All heard her screams; none came to her aid. Since then, the paralysis of the innocent by stander has spurred psychologists to in vestigate man's unfortunate proclivity for playing the Bad Samaritan...
True Grit is a particularly obnoxious piece of hack-work about the attempt of a fourteen-year-old girl (Kim Darby) to take revenge upon "a piece of white trash" for the murder of her father. To accomplish this she buys the services of a murderous U.S. marshal (John Wayne) and is forced to accept those of a young Texas Ranger (Glenn Campbell) who has offered the marshal a some what better for the same...
Hard Contract's protagonist is a toothy, vicious gunman-for-hire named Cunningham (James Coburn). In the employ of an anonymous corporation whose business is murder, Cunningham jets off for Europe with a "hard contract" to eliminate three top men who were themselves organization assassins. He manages well enough until he meets an attractive divorcee called Sheila (Lee Remick). Before anyone can say Philosophy in the Bedroom, Cunningham and Sheila are under the same bedspread, where they spend most of their time discussing doom, guilt, predestination, war, violence, murder and the population explosion...