Word: lees
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After spending two years and $6 million on its investigation, the House Select Committee on Assassinations concluded that John F. Kennedy "was probably assassinated as a result of a conspiracy." It said it did not know who might have conspired with Lee Harvey Oswald in the shooting, but it specifically excluded such familiar scapegoats as the FBI, the CIA, the Secret Service, the Soviet government, the Cuban government, all anti-Castro Cuban groups and the Mafia...
...Pahlavi, one of the Shah's three sisters, who owns the $600,000 home at 1163 Calle Vista. Both Princess Shams and the ailing matriarch of the house of Pahlavi, nonagenerian Queen Mother Tajomolouk, were within the 1.4-acre estate during the outburst. Said Beverly Hills Police Captain Lee Tracy: "It was like a combat zone." The cops arrested seven demonstrators, all Iranians, and the Immigration and Naturalization Service began investigating whether deportation proceedings could be started against them...
...retaliated harshly over the next four years. At the peak of the fighting, the Shah supplied helicopters and pilots to help 70,000 Pakistani soldiers put down the rebellion of 55,000 bearded, turbaned Muslim guerrillas, who were mostly armed with local versions of Britain's Edwardian-vintage Lee-Enfield rifle. Since then, the Baluch have been relatively quiet. But members of a Marxist Baluchistan People's Liberation Front have found sanctuary in Afghanistan, and resentment of Pakistan's unfulfilled promises of greater freedom lingers. So too does concern among some Western analysts that future upheaval...
...Baluch separatist stronghold on the Afghan side of the border, grown men and teen-agers can be found drilling with 14-lb. Lee-Enfields and pre paring for an uprising in the indefinite future. Says Chakar Khan, 28, secretary of the Baluchistan People's Liberation Front: "We're weaning them away from tribalism. Today they're beginning to understand that we're not fighting the whole of Punjab province, but only a ruling clique." While Chakar Khan dreams of a Communist "chain across the subcontinent," there are, in fact, no more than 600 fighters...
...Raikula (H) 1:59.44; 200-yd. butterfly--1. Campari Knoepffler (H) 1:56.62, 2. F. Vollernough (N) 1:56.73, 3. P. Duinmayer (N) 1:57.57; 100-yd. freestyle--1. Shcaup (N) 48.77, 2. V. Kesteren (N) 1:58.80, 2. Geoff Seelen (H) 1:59.93, 3. Lee Menichella (H) 2:00.53; 500-yd. freestyle--1. Bobby Hackett (H) 4:31.93, 2. Tim Maximoff (H) 4:35.94, 3. Elzerman (N) 4:40.87; 200-yd. breaststroke--1. Pat Jakobsen (H) 2:16.54, 2. Hond (N) 2:16.56; 400-yd. Freestyle Relay 1. Holland (F. Vollerbergh, Kesteren, R. Schaap, H. Elzerman...