41.   A fourth vice president, Bush, briefly assumed presidential powers after Reagan was wounded in an assassination attempt.

42.   A recent assassination attempt against Shevardnadze, in which his armored Mercedes was raked by gun fire, highlighted the potential instability in the country.

43.   A spokesman for the militant group Hizbul Mujahadeen claimed responsibility for the assassination attempt.

44.   After Campbell survived an assassination attempt last month, Chief Constable Ronnie Flanagan said the IRA had tried to kill Campbell but had not claimed responsibility.

45.   After the failed assassination attempt against Hitler the following year, investigators discovered his ties to the plotters.

46.   Akhmed Kadyrov, the Russian-appointed leader of Chechnya, who has survived several assassination attempts, agrees that a political solution is necessary.

47.   Already Shevardnadze has dodged several assassination attempts.

48.   Allegations have surfaced that KGB agents used ricin in a botched assassination attempt against Soviet dissident Alexander Solzhenitsyn.

49.   But he has twice been the target of apparent assassination attempts since the coup, and is isolated in the church leadership.

50.   But the Sudanese denied any knowledge of the whereabouts of the three men wanted in the assassination attempt.