Word: pasts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flow. Last year 87 murders were recorded in the province, and no one knew how many others went unreported by Ilocanos who did not want to get involved as witnesses. In Ilocos Sur's capital of Vigan (pop. 24,000), where 70 have been murdered in the past two years, there are 214 back murder cases on the docket, some dating...
...Puro Pinget, a stone's throw away, a dozen murders have taken place in the past year over a faction fight that has split the northern and southern sections of the village into warring groups. Puro Pinget's new village boss, elected fortnight ago by unanimous vote, is 37-year-old David Torda, currently out on bail on a charge of killing a 72-year-old neighbor in June...
...heavy is total U.S. investment in Canada ($4.2 billion in the past five years) that it now equals almost half the gross national product. Canadians rejoice in the boom that the money brings-but they are increasingly uneasy about the implications. CAN WE SURVIVE u.s. INVESTMENT? asked a recent headline in Toronto's Financial Post, Canada's most influential business newspaper...
...dictators toppled in the past two years, the U.S. attitude shifted. By the time Vice President Nixon flew back from last year's Caracas stoning, he openly advocated nothing more than a cool, correct handshake for dictators. Milton Eisenhower made the recommendation even stronger in his report to his brother after a swing through Central America in mid-1958. "We have made some honest mistakes with dictators," said Milton. "For example, we decorated several of them. Whatever reason impelled us to take those actions, I think, in retrospect, we were wrong...
...Over the past five years, Washington's International Cooperation Administration has poured $80 million into Guatemala, built eight agricultural-experiment stations, three agrarian-resettlement projects, miles of roads, including the Atlantic highway. But it has not pleased Clemente Marroquin Rojas, 62, last year's Vice President and now Agriculture Minister. Curmudgeon Marroquin Rojas, terrible-tempered owner-editor-publisher of the daily La Hora, holds nothing sacred. He has attacked his own boss, President Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes ("General, watch yourself"), and the Roman Catholic Church ("greedy"). Recently, he took a pitchfork to the ICA. He complained that...