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...separate occasions in the second game, Pankau unloaded kills that ricocheted off the faces of MIT freshmen Kai McDonald and Ramon Partida...
...such as Naomi Wolf $15,000 a month so he can figure out how to act like a man [NATION, Nov. 8]. But the Vice President might really need to cultivate the women's vote, because at this rate he is surely going to lose the men's. GERALD PARTIDA Chino, Calif...
Camacho's pre-election backing embraced every loaded political weapon in Mexico-notably President Cárdenas and his junta, the Partida de la Revolucion Mexicana, the only nation-wide party, and the Confederacion de Trabajadores de Mexico, the federation of labor unions which boasts 1,000,000 members...
Porra v. A. B. C. To keep this up Gerardo Machado had to stay in office. To keep him in he established the Partida de la Porra, the Party of the Bludgeon, to beat and shoot opposition out of existence. For a brief period a female Porra was set up among husky prostitutes who attacked the wives and daughters of anti-Machadoans on the streets, ripping their clothes off with razor blades. Violence begets violence. In 1931 after the collapse of ex-President Menocal's abortive revolution (TIME. Aug. 17. 1931 et seq.) the A. B. C. was established...
...Havana Leopoldo Fernandez Ros strolled to the corner with a friend to get a taxi. Senor Ros, once teacher of geography and history in the Havana High School, newspaper director and censor, was well known as organizer of President Machado's ruffianly strong-arm squad, the "Partida de la Porra" (Party of the Bludgeon). What he got was no taxi. A green automobile swung in to the curb. Somebody fired both barrels of a sawed-off shotgun. Sixteen slugs plowed through his chest, killed him instantly. One of the first at the scene of the assassination was Brigadier Antonio...