1.   Assassination threats kept many polls from opening, preventing hundreds of thousands of Haitians from voting freely for the first time in five years, observers said.

2.   Bands that could not perform in public because of assassination threats against them have resumed playing to enthusiastic audiences.

3.   King was held in such low repute by Hoover that he instructed his men not to warn him if they heard of an assassination threat.

4.   Rejection of the assassination threat removes one of the primary obstacles to improved relations between the United States and Tehran.

5.   The assassination threat is a fascinating premise, and it would be enough to sustain the series.

6.   The day they got back, the government warned Tiruchelvam of a new assassination threat from the Tigers, but did nothing to increase his security.

7.   TIAC president Tim Jackson reacted like Salman Rushdie on the receiving end of an Iranian assassination threat.

8.   A prosecutor on the task force, Jo Valente, has gained nationwide fame because of reported assassination threats against him.

9.   About a dozen explosions echoed across the provincial capital Banda Aceh not long before Abdurrahman Wahid arrived despite escalating violence and a series of assassination threats.

10.   Critics accuse the government of exaggerating the assassination threat to divert attention from worsening economic hardships and divisions within the governing party.