Word: miguel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...March 1974, two men dragged Inez Garcia from her Soledad, Calif., apartment, and one of them raped her. That was what Mrs. Garcia later testified when she was tried for the murder of Miguel Jiminez, one of the alleged attackers. According to Garcia, less than an hour after the assault, she hunted down Jiminez and Luis Castillo. She shot Jiminez but Castillo got away. At the trial, she said defiantly: "I'm only sorry I missed Luis." Feminists made an issue of the case, which they hoped would establish a woman's right to retaliate violently against rape...
...flotilla of heavily armed vehicles. The armor for many of the vulnerable VIPs is provided by Protection Argentina y Seguridad, a company that started out building armored trucks for banks. "We can make a car like James Bond's, with all his devices in it," claims Miguel Angel Caballero, the company's director. "The only thing we haven't managed yet is to make one that will fly." For about $7,000, P.A.Y.S. will transform any regular production-model Argentine car into a rolling fortress, with sufficient armor to withstand small-arms fire and yet maneuverable enough...
...year-old colonial empire in Africa comes to an end this week. In accordance with instructions from Lisbon, the last Portuguese high commissioner in Angola, Admiral Leonel Cardoso, will lower his country's red, yellow and green flag at the 16th century stone fort of Sào Miguel in Luanda, the territory's capital. Then he plans to tuck it under his arm and-much to the annoyance of Angolans-sail off with it to Lisbon on a waiting Portuguese frigate. His unwillingness to hand over the flag with the reins of power is not a last...
Lately the movement has gathered momentum. Mimeographed sheets demand: "Out with the political dogs, out with the oppressive parasites, out with the sailors, out with the Communists and officers." In June, when 3,000 people on São Miguel Island protested the low prices that farmers were getting for their milk from the mainland, the demonstration turned into a minor rebellion; the rioters seized the radio station and Huberto Delgado Airport and held them for six hours...
...books, Virginia Hamilton's M.C. Higgins, the Great, a story about growing up black in the Cumberland Mountains. Science and translation offered a contrast between trouble of the psyche and of the soul: Silvano Arieti's Interpretations of Schizophrenia and the Anthony Kerrigan translation of Spanish Philosopher Miguel de Unamuno's The Agony of Christianity and Essays on Faith...