Word: partisans
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prosecution had more than enough other witnesses to compensate for his total lack of recall. Partisan Leader Pietro Terzi, commander of the men who captured the treasure, laughed nervously as he testified: "We decided to hand the treasure to the Communist Party because the Communists had fought harder than anyone else." An ex-driver for the partisans told of loading five heavy suitcases aboard a Fiat, taking them to Como and delivering them to Gorreri. "They weighed plenty," said the driver. "The car was overloaded and the wheels scraped against the fenders." Snapped Gorreri: "I never saw you before...
...levels of horror and misery. At the bottom of the pit, by almost any measure, lies Albania. Last week a Cabinet minister of Albania's still strongly Stalinist government, Major General Panajot Plaku, fled his rugged country, at night crept along mountain paths he had known as a partisan in World War II, and crossed into Yugoslavia. Plaku is the most important ranking Communist among the 5,000 to 6,000 Albanians who have fled his benighted country since...
...Latin American evil, that military personalities seek to make themselves dictators through recourse to the arms that the people themselves pay for. We shall so conduct ourselves that the army, in a democratic spirit, as in such other countries as the U.S., England and France, may remain aloof from partisan political strife...
When Wartime Partisan Leader Aldo Fascetti was named by the Italian government last summer to boss the state holding company that runs about one-quarter of Italy's industry, private businessmen saw Red. Fascetti, 56, was an outspoken left-winger, and no sooner did he take over the huge Istituto per la Recostruzione Industriale (assets: $3 billion), than he-ordered "an aggressive advance in every sector of the economy." Businessmen feared that I.R.I., which has holdings in 86 companies and dominates most of them, would socialize even more of the Italian economy. Last week, in announcing I.R.I...
...Crimson added some frosting to the cake, scoring two insurance runs on some heads-up base running in the sixth. Cleary laid down a perfect suicide squeeze bunt to score Haughey from third and Bergantino from second, which proved to be more than enough to send the partisan crowd home content. Box Score AB H R RBI Bergantino 5 0 1 0 Cleary 4 2 1 2 Simourian 4 2 1 0 Hastings 4 2 1 1 Botsford 4 1 1 0 Getch 3 2 1 2 Stahura 3 0 0 0 Haughey 4 1 1 0 McGinnis...