Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Iran's Premier Hussein Ala arrived patched with adhesive tape where the revolver, hurled by a frustrated assassin, had nicked his head a fortnight ago. With Macmillan came Britain's chief military man, General Sir Gerald Templer. Turkey's bland Premier Adnan Menderes arrived last, as befitted the nation with METO's biggest army. Representing the U.S. as "observer" and backstage sponsor was U.S. Ambassador to Iraq Waldemar J. Gallman and Admiral John H. Cassady, commander of all U.S. naval forces in the Eastern Atlantic and Mediterranean...
Next door to Morocco, Algerian troublemakers, not to be outdone, persisted in shooting up the place. In Algiers an assassin fired three shots from his bicycle, disappeared leaving a police commissioner dead on the pavement. In Constantine, a rebel stamping ground in eastern Algeria, French troops battled guerrilla bandits, captured 77. Later, a French troop detachment and then an army supply truck were ambushed. The week's dead...
...police station the assailant, 32-year-old Muzaffar Ali Zolgadr, feigned insanity in an effort to conceal the fact that he actually was an assassin on assignment. But on his undershirt, cops found two messages written in red ink: "The military pact and oil agreement must be abrogated and all Moslem rules enforced. Islam is above all." The second was from the Koran: "Those who get killed for God and for His rules are not dead but alive...
...Knife (Robert Aldrich; United Artists) is one of the wickedest instruments ever plunged into Hollywood's always bleeding heart. Furthermore, it is twisted a few times, slowly, just to emphasize the point. The assassin in the case is Clifford Odets, the brilliant playwright (Waiting for Lefty) who lived right and thought left in Hollywood during the '40s. The deed he does here was originally perpetrated as a Broadway play in 1949. As a movie, it is arousing consternation, indignation and malicious delight among some of Hollywood's best people...
While cables passed back and forth, fresh violence boiled up. In one town masked terrorists disarmed, bound and gagged five constables; in another a gunman shot and critically wounded a British mining engineer. In still another a Greek Cypriot policeman fell dead from an assassin's bullet. In the week's worst incident, as reported by one newsman, chivalry caused a British retreat. As British troops approached a village near the Baths of Aphrodite, they were met by a solid phalanx of island women, Aphrodite's daughters shielding Ares' stone-hurling sons. Thus protected...