Word: murders
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ranks of U Nu's own governing party, the Anti-Fascist People's Freedom League, while countless vague insurgent groups roam the hills and even the streets of Burma's cities. In many places law and order scarcely exist, and Communist atrocities, like the murder last week of a riverboat captain and three of his passengers, rate only a few paragraphs in local papers. Rebels of one kind or another-Red Flag Communists, White Flag Communists. Karens-still control large areas of Burma. The 80,000-man Burmese army has no Magsaysay dedicated to winning through against...
...proficiency." One reason for his insistence on adequate training: as a regimental commander on Okinawa in 1945, he had taken on replacements with only six to eight weeks' training. "I lost 2,200 men in my regiment alone . . . Those men died because they were not trained. It was murder...
Even in the absence of Shaath's testimony, however, no one in Beirut had any doubt as to who was behind Jedid's murder. In the two years since he fled to Beirut as a political refugee, Ghassan Jedid, fanatic antiCommunist, had spent his time laying the groundwork for a revolt against the Communist-infiltrated clique which Colonel Abdel Hamid Serraj (TIME, Jan. 14) has led to power in Syria. Shortly after Jedid's arrival in Lebanon a Syrian court sentenced him to death in absentia for his alleged complicity in the assassination of a Serraj colleague...
...complete and currently available Pagliaccis, seven Aïdas, five Butterflys, record companies have begun to dig for lesser known works. One of the happiest recent finds: Puccini's one-acter, II Tabarro, on an excellent RCA Victor LP. This somberly lyric tale of jealousy, betrayal and murder on a Seine River barge is sung with power and intensity by Baritone Tito Gobbi, Soprano Margaret Mas and Tenor Giacinto Prandelli, strongly backed by the Rome Opera's chorus and orchestra under Veteran Conductor Vincenzo Bellezza. As the betrayed husband, Gobbi magnificently defines-in a voice alternately liquid with...
...word first popularized during the 1907 trial of Harry K. Thaw for the murder of Architect Stanford White, meaning a temporary fit of insanity...