51.   But this looked to me very much like an assassination attempt on a head of state.

52.   But when they insist on going ahead with the assassination attempt, he reluctantly agrees to lend his experience to the operation.

53.   By then, Hussein had survived his first assassination attempt.

54.   Cote, a convicted bank robber, is believed to have testified to more than a dozen murders and assassination attempts.

55.   Critics of Hun Sen have called this an assassination attempt on Rainsy, who was gaining popularity.

56.   Despite his rage at a bungled Israeli assassination attempt in Amman earlier this fall, he is sending a representative to Doha.

57.   Dudayev has shown himself to be ruthless, putting down all unrest in Chechnya and surviving a number of assassination attempts.

58.   During office, he survived an assassination attempt in which he was shot in the chest.

59.   During the difficult years when he stood up against the military dictators who ruled in Seoul, he was tortured repeatedly and barely survived two assassination attempts.

60.   Early in his first term, Ronald Reagan was shot and seriously injured in an assassination attempt.