Word: provinciale
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The wildcat strikes continued unabated. In Bialsko Biala, near the Czech border, 60,000 workers in 120 factories, including the assembly line for Polish Fiats, stopped work to demand the firing of the provincial governor and three other officials for corruption and mismanagement. Workers in 70 coal mines and industrial...
The victim was Primo Gerardo Caceres, 45, the former mayor of a provincial town. He was one of at least 46 people who have been killed by police after hours since the curfew was imposed in mid-January in an attempt to control El Salvador's guerrilla war. Most...
Embracing a group of children in the recaptured provincial capital of San Francisco Gotera, Duarte declared: "These are the future of our country and none of us wants to see them become guerrillas." The local Indians broke into applause when he assured them that they would no longer have to...
Elsewhere, the guerrillas had some temporary successes. They fomented an insurrection in the garrison of Santa Ana, the country's second largest city; an army captain and 80 soldiers defected to the guerrillas. Heavy fighting continued for days, as leftist troops penetrated several provincial cities before being thrown back...
The Berliawskys were one of 30 Jewish families in a provincial town whose anti-Semitism stung in a thousand ways. Nevelson remembers her father taking to his bed for weeks at a time when things got too much for him. Her mother was "misplaced in every conceivable way"-intelligent, pretty...