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...phone rang. It was Matyas Rakosi, calling from Budapest. Rakosi was not a man whose voice made acquaintances homesick. Bullet-headed, shark-mouthed Rakosi, boss of Hungary's Communists, had a message for his nominal superior in the Government, Nagy...
...Bratislava a fat, bullet-headed Roman Catholic priest walked to the gallows. On the scaffold, Dr. Josef Tiso, ex-president of the wartime Nazi puppet state of Slovakia, murmured a prayer and clutched a rosary. Seven minutes after the trap was sprung, the rosary fell from his lifeless hand...
...City, and death had come to his father. The old General had broken with Strongman Obregon and turned guerrilla. For two years he held out in the jungle, until betrayed. Then, surrounded by government troops, he fought with his handful of men until ammunition ran out. With the last bullet he killed himself. In Mexico City. Miguel put his father's picture above his desk. It has been there ever since...
...morte non vuole-the man whom death does not want. Amerigo Dumini, the St. Louis-born Italian gangster-politician, had sent many men to their death, but somehow always managed to dodge it himself. He lost a hand in World War I, and lived. He stopped a bullet with his head in World War II and lived, recovering miraculously after he had been abandoned as dead in a cave near Bengasi. Yet his most famous dealings with death occurred in the infamous days between the two wars, when he organized the murder of Giacomo Matteotti, the brilliant Socialist deputy...
...took the stand in Rome's Court of Assizes, looking as jaundiced as the walls with their ornate Roman eagles, whose gilt was flaking off from time to time and floating gently down into the courtroom. He seemed to snarl as he spoke, because his World War II bullet wound had distorted his mouth. For the first time after two decades of rumor, Dumini told a graphic story of the famous killing...