Word: nueva
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Salvador's ground troops attacked the provincial capital of Nueva Ocotepeque, in Honduras' southwest corner. A brigade commanded by Colonel Mario ("El Diablo") Velázquez Jandres, a hefty green-eyed man who sports modish sideburns, pressed poorly led Honduran units into a narrow defile, then battered them and the town with 75-mm. artillery and mortar fire...
...central Luzon-particularly in four provinces. Says Senator Manuel P. Manahan, chairman of the Philippine Senate's National Defense and Security Committee: "The Huks have established an in visible government in Pampanga [north of Manila], in western sections of Bula-can and in the southern fringes of Nueva Eciha and Tarlac. They have entrenched themselves in four vital activities: Huk taxation, Huk justice, Huk business and Huk politics...
Curious Islanders. It was a swinging caper. Led by Maria Cristina Verrier, 27, a ye-ye blonde playwright who is a kind of cross between the Girl from U.N.C.L.E. and the Dodge Rebellion, 18 members of the Movimiento Nueva Argentina climbed aboard a night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio Gallegos in Argentina's far south. Shortly before the DC-4 was due to land, they pulled pistols and burp guns out of their suit cases, ordered the pilot to change course for Port Stanley, capital of the Falk land Islands. If all went according to plan, they figured...
...libre to liberate the city. The army garrison at San Cristóbal rallied to his side; the navy joined in, lobbed 3-in. shells at the palace. Air force planes made repeated strafing runs. Then across the river rumbled the tanks, firing almost point-blank into rebel Ciudad Nueva...
...tragic fact was that no one seemed to be in real command any more?not Bosch's people, not the remaining army rebels, not the Communists. At one rebel headquarters in the Ciudad Nueva, a group of young rebels pleadingly told TIME's reporters: "We are not Communists. We are active antiCommunists. We are fighting for the constitution, for Bosch. When the constitution is restored, we will keep the Communists out. We can handle them." Very possibly those youngsters genuinely thought that they were fighting for democracy. But before anyone could talk rationally about restoring anything...