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...weeks ago the conspirators informed the U.S. embassy in San Salvador that they were ready to stage Romero's overthrow. Last Monday their forces moved swiftly through the capital city, carrying out the plotters' plan to "behead the army" by arresting the general staff and putting 85% of the senior officers on the retirement list. Through an American diplomat, they informed Romero that he had until 3 p.m. to get out of the country. With that, the President (whose brother Jose Javier was gunned down by leftists five weeks ago) boarded a plane and fled to Guatemala...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EL SALVADOR: A Coup Against Chaos | 10/29/1979 | See Source »

...keep track of this, you need patience, a scorecard-and a map. Eritrea is backed by neighboring Sudan, which has long been at odds with Ethiopia and which provides most of the Eritreans' supplies via truck convoys. Radio Ethiopia regularly beams anti-Sudanese broadcasts to Khartoum, threatening to behead Sudanese President Jaafar Numeiry if and when the Ethiopian peasant army manages to roll into Sudan. In response, Khartoum-based Radio Eritrea advises Ethiopians: "We surround your troops in every city they illegally occupy. The war is doomed to end in a disastrous effort...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ERITREA: A Raging War on the Horn of Africa | 7/25/1977 | See Source »

Much of this expressiveness, like everything else in the region, has black influences. "I'm always behead or behind," complains a black cook in Georgia over the fact that she could never get caught up in her work. In a Mississippi court, recalls TIME'S Margaret Boeth, Southern-born, a black defendant explained his relationship to the common-law wife he had murdered. She was his "much-right" woman, he said. "I figured I had as much right to her as anybody else...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: Just a Tad Different | 9/27/1976 | See Source »

...most active people in citizens' committees, unions, independence organizations, as well as journalists, teachers and even some politicians. This is not to say that they suspected all these people of being members of the FLQ but it was meant to merely paralyze the movement, to disorganize and behead the movement. Furthermore the government was hoping to frighten the people away from the FLQ. This is what the government referred to as "I' erosion de la volonte populaire...

Author: By Claire Culhane and Jeff Marvin, S | Title: "We Are Part Of Revolution Everywhere" An Interview with Pierre Vallieres | 9/28/1971 | See Source »

...variety of new products, services and jobs is growing up around the thriving catfish industry. Ralston Purina and other manufacturers have developed special catfish foods. Several firms are experimenting with pumps, mechanical feeders and harvesters, and there is a race to develop the best machine to behead, skin and eviscerate catfish. "Chip" Farmer and his neighbors in Dumas, Ark., have opened the nation's first catfish-processing plant, a cooperative that will package 900,000 Ibs. of fish this year. Restaurant chains specializing in farm-grown catfish are opening up in Tennessee, Arkansas and Mississippi. In time, the taste...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Food: Catfish Harvest | 5/16/1969 | See Source »

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