Word: municipales
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Mein, 54, a career foreign-service officer with years of Latin American experience, was well known for his quiet professionalism. In keeping with his taste for unobtrusiveness, he had dismissed an armed escort assigned earlier this year. While his assassination, the first ever of a U.S. ambassador, naturally shocked Washington...
Running Los Angeles is like driving through that bewildering conurbation without a road map. The municipal charter diffuses power among the mayor, the city council and sundry city commissions, an arrangement that confuses all and pleases none-least of all the flamboyant, aggressive mayor. Sam Yorty. He complains that he...
The party leadership seemed genuinely aghast at the violence. Shanghai's daily Wen Hui Pao recently conceded that some of the ruling provincial and municipal revolutionary committees are "not in a state" to function effectively. Reason: "The split between the right and the left." Radio Canton complained that "the...
At 17, Lee joined the Marines and was shipped to Okinawa. "For the first 18 months, I was a machine gunner," he says. Then he shot a 66 in a tryout for his division's golf team-and spent the remaining 2½ years of his military career in...
The doctors' outcry has already had some small remedial effect. Two weeks ago, the city council voted another $536,000 for nurses' salaries; now White is asking the council to restore a third of his budget cuts. Most of this extra money would go for emergency renovation, so...