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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Kalavryta came to be known as the "Lidice of Greece." The Germans, angered by Partisan resistance, marched in during the winter of 1943 and summoned the entire population (about 2,000) to the main square. The men were led away and machine-gunned. Under the heaps of dead, eleven survived. The women & children were locked in a schoolhouse which, along with the rest of Kalavryta, was put to the torch. A horror-stricken Austrian soldier unbolted the schoolhouse door and some women escaped...
...returned last week to battered Bogota. The Colombian Federation of Labor 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...
...many new facts had come to light about Gaitan's death. On the killer's battered body were found the identification papers of a 25-year-old religious fanatic named Juan Roa Sierra, but there was serious doubt that they were the dead man's own papers. Everybody agreed that the Communists had had a hand-right up to the elbow-in the affair. Secretary Marshall had denounced "the same definite pattern which provoked strikes in Italy and France and is endeavoring to prejudice the situation in Italy's elections." In Washington, the Central Intelligence Agency...
...Harvey Harvard is dead, but his six day old son, Harvey II, will hop right into his place as official mascot at the University Nursery School a week from today...
...medicos both in mufti and in uniform, at a Chicago meeting of the American Medical Association's Council on National Emergency Medical Service. What most worried Rear Admiral Morton D. Willcutts: Where to stack the radioactive corpses? Said he: "The question of disposal of civil ian dead will be formidable...