Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Egyptian officer arrived in Khartoum and announced himself new counselor to the Egyptian embassy. To the Sudanese government the name of Ali Khashaba was familiar. Iraq and Lebanon had already expelled him for subversion. Last spring Saudi Arabia, kicking him out, accused him of masterminding a plot to murder King Saud. Within three days of his arrival in Khartoum, the Sudanese government charged Ali Khashaba with stirring up subversion, gave him exactly 24 hours to get out of the country...
...Republic Is Here! The rebels later said they had not wanted to kill the young Hashemite King, descendant of the Prophet. Fearing public revulsion against his murder, the killers kept his death a secret, wrapped him in a carpet and smuggled his body away to be buried. But the Crown Prince, who had ruled the country for 14 years as Regent, and was widely disliked, was another matter. His assassins threw his body out a window, let the mobs drag him through the streets and string his body up in public. Then the plotters began systematically rounding up government ministers...
...Sole Purpose . . ." At the start, Henry Cabot Lodge was painfully on the defensive. He began with a bit of dramatics, which, as things turned out, proved unfortunate, by reporting the murder of Iraq's former Prime Minister and U.N. Delegate Fadhil Jamali. "Only a few weeks ago he was here with us. We heard his voice. We rejoiced in his humor. Now we learn that he was not only murdered but that his body was actually dragged through the streets of Baghdad."* Then, doggedly, but with difficulty. Lodge tried to get around the touchy point that...
...popularity contest altogether. No BBC program, according to TAM (Television Audience Measurement Ltd.), is now a serious contender for the ten regularly top-rated shows. In the most recent survey, the U.S. export oater called Wagon Train led the pack, followed by a typically British whodunit series (Murder Bag) featuring diabolically clever homicides. One other U.S. show made the list in the No. 10 spot: CBS's ad-lib courtroom drama, The Verdict Is Yours (TIME...
...Bravados (20th Century-Fox) is a western that attempts to draw a useful moral, but it is just too goldurn slow (98 minutes) on the draw. The hero (Gregory Peck) is a ranchman who hunts down and kills three men for the rape and murder of his wife, only to discover that the men did not commit the crime. To make matters worse, the killings have made him a hero to the whole district...