assassination attempt• There was shouting, the kind of confusedcommotion that usually attends an assassination attempt.• He was badly wounded in an assassination attempt in 1996.• Reagan was wounded in an assassination attempt in 1981.• There was tension-Gligorov survived an assassination attempt-but no fighting.• In December 1989 he had survived a car-bomb assassination attempt in Cairo.• It was the scene of a failedassassination attempt on the royalcouple at a charityconcert nine years ago.• Within five years, surviving numerousassassination attempts, he managed to convert thousands of Calvinists back to Catholicism.• Patricio Martnez survived the assassination attempt.• It was clear he had had nothing to do with the assassination attempt.