VOA标准英语2009-Gunmen Kill Presidential Candidate in Guinea
时间：2019-02-07 作者：英语课 分类：VOA标准英语2009年(六月)
Unidentified gunmen have killed a presidential candidate in Guinea Bissau. Campaigning is due to start Saturday for an election to replace long-time president Joao Bernardo Vieira who was assassinated 1 in March.
State radio says gunmen broke into the home of Baciro Dabo around 4:00 a.m. (local) Friday morning and shot him in his bed.
The former interior minister had close ties to President Vieira. Though he was running in this election as an independent candidate, analysts 2 say Dabo had the backing of Prime Minister Carlos Gomes Jr.
The prime minister initially 3 wanted the ruling party to make interim 4 leader Raimundo Pereira its presidential candidate. But when the central committee chose former national assembly chair Malam Bacai Sanha instead, analysts say Gomes began supporting Dabo.
His murder comes just a day before the start of campaigning to replace President Vieira, who was killed in his home in March hours after a bomb blast killed his chief political rival, Army Chief of Staff General Batista Tagme Na Waie.
It is the latest violent change of power in a country that has seen a series of army mutinies and coups 5 since independence from Portugal in 1974.
Regional diplomats 6 say that instability has been made worse by Latin American drug gangs using remote airstrips along Guinea-Bissau's coastline to smuggle 7 cocaine 8 to Europe.
Several candidates are running to succeed President Vieira. But the vote scheduled for June 28 is expected to be primarily a race between the ruling party's Sanha and the main opposition 9 Social Renewal 10 Party's Kumba Yala.
- The prime minister was assassinated by extremists. 首相遭极端分子暗杀。
- Then, just two days later, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. 跟着在两天以后，肯尼迪总统在达拉斯被人暗杀。 来自辞典例句
- City analysts forecast huge profits this year. 伦敦金融分析家预测今年的利润非常丰厚。
- I was impressed by the high calibre of the researchers and analysts. 研究人员和分析人员的高素质给我留下了深刻印象。
- The ban was initially opposed by the US.这一禁令首先遭到美国的反对。
- Feathers initially developed from insect scales.羽毛最初由昆虫的翅瓣演化而来。
- The government is taking interim measures to help those in immediate need.政府正在采取临时措施帮助那些有立即需要的人。
- It may turn out to be an interim technology.这可能只是个过渡技术。
- China has seen many political coups within the ruling class. 中国统治阶级内部发生过很多政变。 来自互联网
- Thailand has had eighteen coups or coup attendance since nineteen thirty-two. 泰国1932年以来有18次政变或参加政变。 来自互联网
- These events led to the expulsion of senior diplomats from the country. 这些事件导致一些高级外交官被驱逐出境。
- The court has no jurisdiction over foreign diplomats living in this country. 法院对驻本国的外交官无裁判权。 来自《简明英汉词典》
- Friends managed to smuggle him secretly out of the country.朋友们想方设法将他秘密送出国了。
- She has managed to smuggle out the antiques without getting caught.她成功将古董走私出境，没有被逮捕。
- That young man is a cocaine addict.那个年轻人吸食可卡因成瘾。
- Don't have cocaine abusively.不可滥服古柯碱。
- The party leader is facing opposition in his own backyard.该党领袖在自己的党內遇到了反对。
- The police tried to break down the prisoner's opposition.警察设法制住了那个囚犯的反抗。