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...Egyptians complained to Swiss Foreign Minister Max Petitpierre, and an investigation began. Swiss newspapers spoke guardedly of Swiss agents who were being questioned by Dubois. Then the heat was turned on Dubois: the interrogator was interrogated. Returning home one afternoon Dubois took out his Swiss army pistol, and shot himself through the head. He left a note for his wife: "Forgive me. I am innocent...
Gingery knew, as he put it later, "that something awful had happened." As he sat frozen in the seat, Hassett leaped from his car, raced across the road toward the police car with a pistol in each hand, obviously to kill what he thought was another policeman. "My first thought," said Gingery, "was that there's nothing I can do-nothing. He's coming to kill me." But the second thought was stronger: picking up a sawed-off shotgun from the front seat of the car, he worked frantically with the safety catch, released it just as Hassett...
Swiftly and efficiently the men herded the women upstairs at pistol point, tied them with curtain cords, locked them in a bathroom, and-undetected by a private secretary asleep upstairs-systematically ransacked the house. Soon afterwards they walked away with a wad of bank notes and the French underworld's biggest haul of stolen jewelry (estimated value: $285,000) since the Aga Khan's wife was robbed of $500,000 worth on the Riviera in 1949. It was not. however, so much the size of the haul that gave the burglary its special interest as the identity...
Havana's Radio Reloj-Radio Clock-chattered away one afternoon last week with news and commercials, then gave the time of day: 3:30. A pause followed-for the excellent reason that three young men had burst into the studio waving guns. One of them pointed a pistol at the announcer's head, and the trembling announcer broadcast what he was ordered to say: "Batista is dead!" At the Presidential Palace, fellow rebels stormed in to make the words come true, were soon within one flight of stairs of succeeding...
...Batista, with his pregnant wife and one small child, was lunching in his third-floor .residential quarters. Grabbing a pistol and crouching below window level, he phoned army and navy forts for help. Below, the shooting went on as the guard rallied and began to fight the attackers back down the bloody stairs. Not one of the 21 reached the door alive...