wounding of a number of individuals, between 2 and 5 in those cases.  Political tension was present in 95.6% of all attempts, while non-political forms of tension were involved in 4.4% of all attacks.

     Table 2 presents bivariate analysis on all independent variables

     

                 Table 2.  Bivariate Analysis

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

     Charismatic authority figures were most likely to be the target of a successful assassination occurring 58.1% of the time.  This finding is significant (c2=.003).  Assassinations that took place in countries characterized by minority hostility occurred in only 43.8% of attempts, making it more likely to occur than in countries not bothered by minority hostilities.  However, these findings did not yield significance (c2=.278).  Assassinations related to political tension were more likely to be successful than attacks provoked by other forms of tension. Political tension related assassinations achieved a triumphant outcome in 34.2% of the cases.  Again, this finding was not significant as yielded by the chi-squared statistic (c2=.721).  Third world countries were more likely to house successful assassination attempts.  Such attempts occurred in third world countries 37.0% of the time.  Despite this high likelihood, the finding was not significant (c2=.379).  Collateral damage was negatively associated with successful assassinations.  Unsuccessful assassinations occurred 65.0% of the time where a bystander was wounded during the attempt on the target’s life.  This finding was significant (c2=.000).