Word: abided
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Abid Haneef, another member of the Donnelly field planning team, charged that the CRA was responsive to the needs of the universities and not the people. He cited the fact that all five members of the Agency are graduates of Harvard College or one of the graduate schools...
...head of a column of troops and tanks, he set out from Orleansville, 105 miles southwest of Algiers, and began rolling toward the capital. He expected no resistance. Army cohorts in Algiers had promised to disrupt government communications, and he was counting on the support of Major Said Abid, commander of the First Military Region, who controlled the approaches to Algiers. There was one flaw in the plot: Boumediene's secret police knew its every detail. Forewarned, the President quickly crushed the coup, dispatching his own troops and planes to ambush the insurgent column near the old French colonial...
...years later he openly opposed Rhee's re-election to the presidency, and in 1956 earned Rhee's abid ing hatred by getting himself elected Vice President on the Democratic ticket. Rhee isolated him by excluding him from all participation in govern ment, did not even speak to him except on ceremonial occasions. Then an assassin took a potshot at him, hit ting him in the hand; Chang was so shaken that he retired to his home, surrounded himself with hand-picked bodyguards, and rarely ventured forth. And though he courageously continued to denounce the corruption and brutality...