Word: marias
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most determined assassin was the architect of the Petit-Clamart ambush (which the plotters called "Operation Charlotte Corday"*), an air force lieutenant colonel named Jean-Maria Bastien-Thiry. A brilliant engineer known as "the French von Braun" for his invention of the guided SSII missile, he masterminded both Petit-Clamart and an earlier attempt in which a napalm and plastique bomb was planted on the route to Colombey. De Gaulle commuted the death sentences of two other Petit-Clamart conspirators, Jacques Prévost and Alain Bougrenet de la Tocnaye. But he refused to grant clemency to Bastien-Thiry, reportedly...
...Maria ("Isabelita") Martinez de Perón, 42, has obviously learned more steps than did her predecessor. Evita's hopes of becoming Vice President in 1951 were dashed by a determinedly male-chauvinist military. This time round, with an overwhelming election victory for both Peróns, no such opposition is anticipated. Barring the total collapse of order in Argentina, Isabelita will become her country's first female Vice President on inauguration...
...time Maria McGuire had romantic notions of Irish Republican Army leaders as "rugged heros." They in turn, she admits, were surprised to find a girl in hot pants who was interested in the Provisional I.R.A...
...MARIA McGUIRE...
...Maria, now 25, was more than a guerrilla groupie. University educated, multilingual, pretty, and with plenty of public relations savvy, she was one of the I.R.A.'s better front agents. Then after a year she fell out of love with the Provo leadership and defected to write this kiss-and-tell book about the men who have been blowing Ireland apart...