Word: lieuts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...ambassador, naturally shocked Washington, Guatemalans were not so startled. Since civilian rule supplanted a rigid military regime in 1966, Communist and right-wing terrorists have killed some 2,000 people in their running crossfire-among them two U.S. military advisers, Army Colonel John Webber Jr. and Naval Lieut. Commander Ernest Munro, who were murdered in Guatemala City last January. The killing of Ambassador Mein ended a promising four-month lull in Guatemala's violence. It set back hopes for new political stability, encouraged only last month when President Julio César Méndez Montenegro's moderate...
...stranglehold tightened last week on Biafra, where the secessionist forces of Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Ojukwu are encircled by the federal Nigerian army. Only three cities remain in Biafran control: Umuahia, Owerri and Aba. Of these three, by far the most vital to Ojukwu is Aba, a trade and rail center of 100,000 before the war and Biafra's provisional capital. It was at Aba that Nigeria's 3rd Division, moving steadily north from Port Harcourt, aimed its assault...
Despite technical setbacks, and an increasingly tight budget, NASA seems determined to meet the goal set by President Kennedy seven years ago: a manned U.S. landing on the moon during this decade. Last week Apollo's program director, Lieut. General Samuel C. Phillips, announced a revised schedule that will postpone the manned flight of the glitch-ridden lunar module (LM), and may add a manned flight around the moon to the prelanding missions, yet still place astronauts on the moon before...
Physical Ruin. The symbol of Biafran resistance is Lieut. Colonel Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu, a brooding hulk of a man who leads his people's military effort and speaks for their pain. With an Oxford education, a rare gift for rhetoric and a deep sense of the tragedy encompassing the war, he is endowed with the best that the white man has given Africa and beset by the worst of Africa's many ills. Ojukwu is also probably...
Resplendently uniformed, Biafran leader Lieut. Colonel Odumegwu Ojukwu launched into a 2-hr. 10-min. speech that borrowed at one point from Haile Selassie himself. "There is no precedent for a people being victim of such injustice and being at present threatened by abandonment to its aggressor," he said. "It is in order to denounce to the civilized world the tortures inflicted upon my people that I resolved to come to-Geneva." He was quoting the Emperor's plea to the League of Nations in 1936, after Mussolini's troops had overrun Ethiopia. "I was defending the cause...