Assassinations and Executions: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence 1900 through 2000 (revised edition)

The year 1986 seems to have been good for political assassinations. Starting with Ignacio Gonzalez Palacios, the director of the Guatemalan secret police who was shot and killed while driving in Guatemala City on 2 January, and three members of the South Yemen government who were killed following a coup attempt on 13 January, through to Edward King, the mayor of Mount Pleasant, Iowa, who was shot and killed by an angry rate‐payer, and Mosbah Mohammed Gharibi, the financial attaché of the Libyan Embassy in Damascus, who was ambushed and killed on Christmas Day near Beirut, a total of 42...