Word: hideout
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Last week two U.S. newsmen were taken to Barbot's Haitian hideout, and he and his brother Harry posed for pistol-packing pictures. Barbot claimed that he was responsible for the recent killing of three guards and the attempted kidnaping of Duvalier's two children; since then, his men have fought half a dozen bloody skirmishes with Duvalier's militiamen. "I have many friends who say they are with Duvalier now," he said, "but inside they are with Barbot." If he does topple Duvalier, Barbot promises free elections within six months. But then he, too, wants...
...August 1962 by then. Lutins' efforts had added 18 months to Ricky's life. But Jim Laing was taking no chances. He spirited Ricky across the state line to a secret hideout where Virginia executioners could not get at him. Lawyer Lutins then reached for the top. In a 19-page petition, he asked the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case. It refused: the dog must die as soon as he puts a paw back into Virginia...
...been Nkrumah's closest cronies, ex-Foreign Minister Ako Adjei, ex-Information Minister Tawia Adamafio, and H. H. Cofie-Crabbe, former executive secretary of Nkrumah's own Convention People's Party. Mama Tula said that the trio conferred with the bomb throwers at a village hideout, supplied eight British-made grenades and promised a $560 bounty if Nkrumah was killed. The three have been in prison under the Preventive Detention Act since last August...
Fidel Castro has long complained that the U.S. naval base at Guantánamo Bay is being used as a hideout by guerrillas and underground fighters against his Communist police state. New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating has a complaint of his own: that Cuban refugees are being held in Guantánamo against their will. The Navy last week answered both accusations...
Special Branch (political) police searched for him everywhere, regularly swooped on his dowdy little home in Orlando township, searched bus stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...