Word: triggerman
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...Triggerman. And three's a crowd. The ingredients for an intraparty explosion were already there, but it was McCarthy who pulled the trigger with his New Hampshire showing. Before the debris had settled, Kennedy moved to shoulder him aside. Scarcely a month after he had unequivocally denied speculation that he would challenge the President, the Senator announced: "I am reassessing my position." Before he reached a final decision, he made an extraordinary offer to the President (see box, p. 18), to which Johnson, not surprisingly, said no. Kennedy soon afterward decided...
...killed Communist Terrorist Leonard Castillo John son, 22, a member of the Castroite Rebel Armed Forces (FAR)-and the boyfriend of the murdered beauty queen. The next morning, the FAR issued a brief bulletin, claiming credit for the murders of Webber and Munro, and posthumously congratulating Castillo as the triggerman who had "brought to justice the Yanqui officers who were teaching tactics to the Guatemalan army for its war against the people...
...Awfully Sorry." The night after Valachi described "Bobby Doyle" of Stamford, Conn., as triggerman in three 1930 slayings, a Stamford businessman named Robert Doyle, who was twelve years old in 1930, began getting nasty phone calls. Next day, Connecticut's Democratic Senator Abraham Ribicoff protested, and Valachi remembered that his Bobby Doyle, an alias for Gangster Girolamo Santuccio, lived in Hartford. Chairman McClellan allowed that he was "awfully sorry" about the mistake, but a good many people thought that it was disgraceful for the Senate to permit Valachi to broadcast rumors and hearsay. Said Maine's Democratic Edmund...
...limousine with bulletproof windows. According to the official story from Sûieté headquarters on the Rue des Saus-saies, police had discovered a plot on a civilian's tip, in the nick of time. After interrogating the five suspects, the police indicated that the triggerman was Navy Captain Robert Poinard, 37, who was held for questioning along with his blonde young wife. According to the police supposition, Captain Poinard was to use a carbine with a telescopic sight to kill De Gaulle while he was inspecting the honor guard in the cobbled Ecole Militaire courtyard. Two other...
Casting about for a triggerman, he happened on Talduwe Somarama, who was both a monk and a practicing ophthalmologist. As a Buddhist, Somarama was exasperated at the Prime Minister's delay in fulfilling his campaign promises to Buddhism. As an ophthalmologist, he was anxious to have his contract at the State Indigenous Hospital renewed, and therefore needed Buddharakitha's good offices, for the widow Wijewardene had put the high priest on the hospital's appointment board. Plainly, Somarama was Buddharakitha...