Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Dime in Hand. The prosecution's white witnesses all sounded as if they were testifying for the defense. Leon Crocker, a domino-playing friend of Coleman's, testified that he was sitting on a bench in front of the store. He said that he heard Coleman tell Daniels that the store was closed, but that Daniels opened the door anyway-and "I heard a shot." Morrisroe, Crocker said, "made a break like he was going for the door.". Crocker solemnly avowed that in Daniels' right hand "there was a bright, shiny object that resembled a knife," while...
...Caracas, dynamite an oil pipeline, or raid some remote village. Last week one band clashed with government troops 200 miles south of Caracas, and when the shooting was over two guerrillas and two soldiers were dead. In neighboring Colombia, long troubled by a siege of backlands banditry, President Guillermo Leon Valencia's biggest headache is "Sure Shot" Pedro Antonio Marin, 35, who leads some 100 guerrillas and killed 17 people on one recent backlands raid. Another 150 guerrillas are operating in the Guatemala countryside, the most important group led by Marco Antonio Yon Sosa, 34, a onetime army lieutenant...
...Senate Internal Security Subcommittee arrives in Boston to question Leon Kamin and Helen Markham about alleged Communist affiliations and activities. They both take the fifth...
Wendell H. Furry, associate professor of Physics (now a full professor). Leon J. Kamin, teaching fellow in Social Relations...
Under President Guillermo Leon Valencia's do-nothing, three-year-old government, the cost of living has risen 60%, Colombia's chronic trade deficit has doubled, business confidence has evaporated and unemployment is soaring. Politically, the ruling Liberal-Conservative National Front is splintering, and Congress is all but immobilized. Last week, with new elections only nine months away, Valencia finally decided that something ought to be done. Invoking emergency powers, he named a new Cabinet and decreed a series of reforms to pull the economy back from the brink...