Word: ciudad
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Hence, the location of bombs was not part of a smuggling plot diverted from Agua Prieta to the east, but a plot to bomb the train of Mexican Federals (due between five and six that morning in Naco) who had been interned at Fort Bliss after the Ciudad Juarez fall and recently released and shipped to Xaco under protest of the Governor of Arizona...
...effort was completely frustrated except at Ciudad Real, where a regiment of light artillery rebelled and occupied the small barracks of the Bienmerita. They placed artillery in commanding positions sweeping the avenues and roadways, and detained all trains...
...been living in Paris for some years, and, last week, he reached Valencia from France on a small especially chartered steamer?two days late. The delay?occasioned by a breakdown of the steamer?necessitated a circular telegram to revolt leaders throughout Spain, ordering postponement. Apparently the garrison at Ciudad failed to receive the order, went off halfcocked, and thus revealed the plot to the government...
Maria Guadalupe Chaires, from Ciudad Victoria, who was captured and asked where the priest and certain other Roman Catholics were hiding, and who when she refused to tell, was torn to pieces by soldiers. The soldiers began by tearing off her fingers and continued their mutilations until the woman was dead...
...Phoenix, Ariz., excavations in La Ciudad, a pueblo ruin, continued under Archeologist Erick Schmidt of the American Museum of Natural History. Rewards: carved shells, pottery, arrowheads, grinding stones, two skeletons thought to be those of the race of Canal-Builders who first irrigated the Salt River valley...