Word: nationale
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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* Pun-prone Habaneros, accustomed to doing business in local branches of New York banks, promptly dubbed the institution "Che's National Bank." *Who a fortnight ago joined Che's and Raúl's wives as stars at a Communist-sponsored Women's Congress in Santiago...
The occasion was the 138th anniversary of Panama's independence from Spain, and cooler heads tried to confine it to a university-sponsored sovereignty rally in a plaza eight blocks from the Canal Zone. But even before the first moderate speaker could finish, 200 well-organized rioters took over...
A Pile of Rocks. Soldiers and demonstrators scuffled over the flag. One flag planter got jabbed by a G.I. bayonet; furious, the rioters stoned the G.I.s. Screaming and singing Panama's national anthem, they ran down Fourth of July Avenue; many rioters turned back into Panama City to smash...
Lining the zone boundary, 2,000 rioters burned two Uncle Sams in effigy, screamed insults, hurled rocks. As night fell, Panamanian National Guard reinforcements gradually forced the rioters back, and U.S. searchlights flicked on. Five hours later, shaky peace returned.
For weeks France's National Assembly has debated the cases of nervous Draftee Jacques Charrier, 23. cinemactor bridegroom of Cinemactress Brigitte Bardot, and Civilian Yves Saint-Laurent, 23, twice-deferred head of Paris' high-fashion House of Dior. Last week France's Defense Minister Pierre Guillaumat himself...