Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...many as 100 people were crowded into the pantry of Los Angeles' Ambassador Hotel on June 5, 1968, when Sirhan Bishara Sirhan fired a 22-cal. revolver at Robert F. Kennedy. No one, as far as is known to this day, observed a second assassin. An autopsy and a far-reaching investigation by the FBI and local police persuaded authorities that Sirhan was the lone killer...
Several prominent resistance leaders who stayed in Greece to fight the junta won seats in the new Parliament. So did Alexandras Panagoulis, the would-be assassin of ex-Dictator George Papadopoulos. But Actress Melina Mercouri, an outspoken opponent of the old regime, went down to a narrow defeat on the Pasok ticket in her working-class district in Piraeus. Another loser was Composer Mikis Theodorakis, who ran as one of the candidates of the United Left, an umbrella organization of Greece's three Communist parties...
Through such tactics, Park has managed to mute dissent within Korea, though an assassin's bullet intended for him killed his wife last summer. But outside the country, support for him has shrunk. Two congressional committees want to slash U.S. military aid to Korea almost in half, to about $80 million for this fiscal year...
...thing to confess impotence before the gun of the assassin, but it is quite another to grant him recognition and obsequious deference," Eban said. "Israel will not die and will not be swallowed...
...refused to sell the region of Venetia for nearly $1 billion and then lost it-and many thousands of lives-as a result of a disastrous war with Prussia. The survivor's instinct could only have deepened as he saw his family cut down by firing squad and assassin: his younger brother Maximilian as Napoleon Ill's cat's paw in Mexico, his son Rudolf as a result of a crime passionnel suicide pact at Mayerling, his wife at Geneva, his nephew Franz Ferdinand at Sarajevo...