Word: assassination
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...like wraiths from the mists of European history, evoking episodes that dispatched the tumbrels of war throughout the Old Continent 74 summers ago, or paved the way a half-millennium earlier for the Turkish domination of the Balkans. It was at Sarajevo in June 1914 that a Serbian-trained assassin shot the Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria-Hungary, igniting World War I. And it was at Kosovo Field in 1389 that the Ottomans snuffed out Serbian independence...
...When an assassin's bullet cut down popular Prime Minister Olof Palme in 1986, many Swedes assumed that it had crippled his ruling Social Democratic Party as well. Scandals plagued the government of his successor, the stolid Ingvar Carlsson, and a swing toward conservatism among young voters seemed to make a change all but inevitable...
...lissena this. Richard Condon useta write very funny stuff, right up there with George V. Higgins, but lately there is too much stuff and not enough funny. Mainly, this third book of the Prizzi series, about the good-guy Mafia assassin Charley Partanna, needs a dose of bran. In Condon's mad early novels -- The Oldest Confession, The Manchurian Candidate -- marvelous characters seethed with venality and obsession. In the current book there is still enough corruption to go around, but not much narrative drive. Condon's Mafia greedsters now own 32% of what there...
...facts are fairly indisputable, although someone, somewhere will provide arguments to the contrary. On Nov. 22, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot and fatally wounded while riding in a motorcade around Dealey Plaza in Dallas. Almost exactly 48 hours later, Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin, was gunned down in front of live television cameras while being transferred from one jail to another. He died shortly thereafter...
Ozal ducked under the podium and delegates scrambled to get out of the Ataturk convention hall as bullets fired by security guards sprayed the room. More than a dozen people were wounded by gunfire, and several were injured in the stampede. The would-be assassin was immediately captured. He was identified as Kartal Demirag, a Turk who had recently escaped from prison, where he was being held for attempted murder. Ozal, who later had three stitches in his hand, returned to the podium to tell cheering delegates, "No one can take away the life given by God except God himself...