Word: chieftain
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Polk himself had planned to embark for the United States next week, after two years of reporting in the Middle East. One week before his murder, the CBS broadcaster told friends he hoped to get a secret interview with guerrilla chieftain Markos Vifiades before he left...
...five hours one day last week, TIME Inc. Correspondent Thomas Dozier stood by at the funeral of Jorge Eliécer Gaitán, Colombia's Liberal chieftain, whose assassination had touched off Bogotá's insurrection. Later, he wired: "Since the shooting ended, life has settled down to trying to cover the Pan American Conference, which is five miles away, get stories written, and still be in the hotel before the 7 p.m. curfew. If you are out after that, you risk being shot first and identified later...
...lifted its general strike. Trains ran again, bringing food into the city. Gangs of workers shoveled rubble in every street. While some plain citizens dug among the ruins for their belongings, others searched the cemeteries to find their dead. In the upheaval touched off by the assassination of Liberal Chieftain Jorge Eliecer Gaitan, at least 500 had been killed, 2,000 injured...
...Commissar. There were many other pieces in the political crazy quilt. In Costa Rica, bumbling President Teodoro Picado had been shoved aside, and Communist Chieftain Manuel Mora was openly bossing the government show from Bella Vista fortress. Shrewd Manuel Mora gave his Communists guns, then held them ready in the capital. Campesinos and other "volunteers" were shipped off to fight the Ulatistas...
Throughout Asia, men contemplated a new year of fierce breezes. India charged Pakistan with a threat to world peace (see Col. 3). Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek predicted that the Chinese Communists would be beaten by the end of the year; Communist Chieftain Mao Tse-tung hooted that 1948 would bring still more gains for the Reds. A Shanghai editorial writer said humbly: "We can only pray...