Word: kaiser
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical
...Kaiser Steel...
...political kidnaping came to a tragic end. In Cordoba, Argentina last week, Montoneros leftist-Peronist terrorists abducted the honorary U.S. Consul, John P. Egan, 62, from his home. The terrorists demanded that four jailed comrades be released "alive and healthy" by 7 p.m. on Friday-or Egan, a retired Kaiser Industries executive, would be "executed." Both the U.S. embassy and Argentine Foreign Minister Alberto Vignes refused to negotiate with the kidnapers. Late Friday night, on a lonely dirt road outside Cordoba, Egan's body was found riddled with bullets and wrapped in a Montoneros flag...
...great part of the reader's amusement in reading these revisionist fantasies lies in arguing with the authors. Knowing a bit of history helps, but the editor tactfully prefaces each chapter with a paragraph or so of authentic history to remind dullards of the actual date, say, of Kaiser Wilhelm's accession to power and what really happened at Sarajevo...
...virulent man killer. But in 1918, 25 years before the electron microscope made it possible to see viruses at all, there was no way to discourage advances from the Spanish Lady. Paranoia often took the place of ineffective remedies. There were those who thought the bug was the Kaiser's secret weapon, despite the losses his own troops suffered. In Poland, the source of infection was said to be Warsaw's Jewish ghetto. Those whose prejudices were more political called it the Bolshevik disease...