Word: genda
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tora!* as on The Longest Day, which cost about $9,000,000. But the Japanese businessmen-actors will cost little, if anything. Several volunteered their services without pay; others plan to turn their salaries over to charities. A key participant in the Pearl Harbor events, former Staff Officer Minoru Genda, now a member of Japan's Upper House, looked the businessmen over and was filled with nostalgia. "It was fantastic," he said, "like a reunion with all my bosses and colleagues in the old navy...
...little experienced help, the new junta, including not only sergeants but privates and police patrolmen as well, summoned home Colonel John Bangura, a counselor in Sierra Leone's Washington embassy, to head an interim ruling council. As second in command, the junta brought home Lieut. Colonel Patrick Genda, the ambassador to Liberia. As they arrived in Freetown, both men were greeted by happy crowds clutching signs that read "Welcome to Freedom" and "Welcome, Our Saviors...
Sierra Leone last week got its fifth government in a week, which sets a new record even for restless Africa. The change took place while British United Airways Flight 321 from London to Freetown bore homeward Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, 39, who had been summoned from his United Nations diplomatic post to head a new military junta, which had overthrown Army Commander David Lansana, who had arrested Prime Minister Siaka Stevens, who had been named to replace Prime Minister Sir Albert Margai, whose government apparently lost last fortnight's elections...
...seat beside Genda was another of the nation's handful of lieutenant colonels, Andrew Terence Juxon-Smith, 34, who had been attending a British military staff school at the time of the coups. "I gave him what advice I could from my own little mind," Juxon-Smith reported. "As far as I was concerned, he was boss." No longer, as far as the junta was concerned, though. Shortly after Flight 321 took off from London, the officers in Freetown changed their minds about Genda, and when the plane made a refueling stop in the Canary Islands, they got through...
...Margai-and locked them up with the Governor General and the victorious opposition leader. Then, with the nation's four most powerful politicians out of the way, they named an eight-man "National Reformation Council" to run the country. Headed by 39-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, who was deputy army commander until Sir Albert fired him last year, the council's announced goal is to put Sierra Leone's frail democracy back together again...