Word: cortese
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KASHMIR No Progress in the India-Pakistan Standoff Pakistan spurned Indian prime minister Atal Behari Vajpayee's peace proposal. A Pakistani Foreign Ministry spokesman described the plan for joint patrols along Kashmir's disputed Line of Control as unlikely to work because of the state of relations between the two...
Once firearms arrived, "Europe, far more easily than other cultures, was able to convert ranks of spearmen" into deadly infantrymen. They "fired as they had stabbed?in unison, on command, shoulder to shoulder and in rank." From this flowed astonishing Western military feats: Hernan CortEs' 1,600 men slaughtering more...
But all that made sense, since the job up for grabs in this debate was that of mayor of Jerez, a city 1,500 miles southeast of Los Angeles in the Mexican state of Zacatecas. So numerous--and influential with voters back home--are the town's L.A. refugees that...
Revenge motivated the leaders of the U.S.-based MS, whose initials stand for "Salvatrucha Gang," to order Cortes killed. They blamed him for his failure, while leading the gang inside the penitentiary, to defend his members against an attack by rivals from the 18th Street gang. It had been the...
Cortes had been transferred out of the Central Penitentiary soon after the killings, but after he turned to religion, prison authorities sent him back, hoping he could tame his own gang. And that cost him his life.