Word: leon
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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President Leon M'Ba called in the army, but before order could be restored, five Congolese and four Gabonese had been killed. Said a patriotic Gabonese athletics official: "They scored more goals but we killed more Congolese...
State Department Kremlinologists regard Foreign Affairs as an indispensable source of inside dope on Moscow officialdom ; the quarterly has published more than 200 articles on Soviet Russia, some of them be neath such indisputably knowledgeable bylines as Leon Trotsky, Soviet Theoretician N. Bukharin and Nikita Khrushchev...
...Punta massacre was the latest bloody eruption of "la violencia," the backland killings-part political, part savagery-that have taken more than 300,000 lives in Colombia in the past 14 years. Last week President Guillermo Leon Valencia, just one month in office, called on his Cabinet to draft a bill giving him greater power to establish police stations in rural areas, provide stiffer penalties for violence, and funds to combat banditry...
...South African newspaper offices, desk men have begun keeping the list next to their style books and headline charts. Reporting the trial of Union Leader Leon Levy, charged with attending a meeting, the Johannesburg Star said, "Magistrate H. J. Bosnian asked, 'How do you plead?' Levy: (He did plead but his words cannot be published...
...Camargo. 56, the quiet Liberal statesman who has saved his violently partisan country from civil war, completes his full four-year term. When he leaves, he will pass on the seal of presidential office to a man who, under other circumstances, might be his most dangerous enemy−Guillermo Leon Valencia, a Conservative...