Word: gunmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Ugly Familiarity. The prosecution offered only three witnesses, but they were enough to spread the record before the court. During the time that Salan was head of the S.A.O., his gunmen in France and Algeria exploded 7,000 plastic bombs, made 2,000 assassination attempts, caused 415 deaths and wounded 1,145 persons...
...Oran, the Secret Army has used every conceivable method of murder, killing 1,000 Moslems since the ceasefire, with the avowed purpose of provoking Moslem mobs into taking revenge and unleashing a racial war. So far, the terrorists have failed. Last week the frustrated S.A.O. tried another tack: its gunmen sauntered down the cities' streets shooting Moslem women and young girls-killing 18 and wounding...
...messiah, founded the Northeast's first peasant league. Today there are 98 peasant leagues in six states, some Marxist, others not; they have 40,000 members and uncounted sympathizers, have taken over 12,350 acres of rich coastal land, have fought pitched battles with the landlords' hired gunmen, and brought Brazilian infantry troops double-timing to the Northeast in regimental strength. What holds back the revolution is lack of arms and the Communists' own blunders. As in Castro's Cuba, the old-line party members regard Juliāo as "an opportunist" and seek to undercut...
...tells of Trujillo's arriving one night at Nine to deal with eight officers arrested after the plot was broken. Says Nolasco: "The tyrant ordered the compromised officers burned alive." Other survivors tell of a ferocious murder binge immediately after Trujillo's assassination by a band of gunmen last May. Literally scores of people were horribly tortured and killed. Among the victims: General Rene Roman Fernandez, an in-law of Trujillo and secretary of the armed forces, who was suspected of playing a role in the plot. S.I.M. agents took the general to Nine, where he was left...
...restore concord and end the fratricidal combat." France's High Commissioner Christian Fouchet made a moving radio appeal to the "French of Algeria," asking them not to separate themselves from the homeland. But the Europeans mostly followed the stern orders of the Secret Army Organization's gunmen, who ordered them into the streets time and again to resist the inevitable force-and logic-of the decision of Charles de Gaulle...