Word: assassinated
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...liquor-store lines announcing that he is so furious he is going over to the Kremlin to shoot Gorbachev. He returns in a few minutes, however, and resumes his place in the queue. "Well, did you do it?" asks a comrade. "You must be joking," the would-be assassin replies. "The line over there is even longer...
...Garay to pretend he was tinkering with the car. A moment later, Garay heard a gunshot. Immediately the bearded man emerged from the chapel and got back into the car. It was only then that Garay realized the man had a rifle in his hands. Returning to Saravia, the assassin simply said, "Mission accomplished." His identity and whereabouts remain unknown...
...when the Iran-contra scandal broke last year, says Hull, and now el Patron is the target of major investigations and a controversial lawsuit in the U.S. "In the news media and absolutely nowhere else, I have been accused of being a CIA agent, a drug smuggler and an assassin," declared Hull in a statement he says he made last summer to the office of Iran-contra Independent Counsel Lawrence Walsh. "I can assure you that if the assassination charge were true, there are people walking the streets today that would have long since been six feet under...
...kill his father. When the knife-wielding assailant failed, Junatanov's girlfriend crept into the hospital disguised as a nurse and injected the wounded victim with battery acid. That attempt also failed. Junatanov lined up another contract killer to finish the job -- but this time the hired assassin was an undercover Los Angeles police officer. Junatanov, 20, landed in jail. Last year a jury in Los Angeles acquitted him of all charges after hearing lurid testimony of years of physical, emotional and sexual abuse by his father. "The jurors came up and hugged him," says Defense Attorney Joel Isaacson...
Former gridders like Edward M. Kennedy '54 and Torbert H. MacDonald '40 moved on to careers in the Senate and House of Representatives. And Endicott "Babyface Assassin" Peabody '42, a football hero of the early 1940s, went on to serve as governor of Massachusetts...