Word: punta
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...former SS colonel, prefigured the gas chamber by channeling exhaust fumes into trucks filled with victims. Vienna Nazi Hunter Simon Wiesenthal claims that Rauff was responsible for the deaths of 97,000 people in such a manner in Byelorussia, the Ukraine, Poland and Yugoslavia. Rauff reportedly lives today in Punta Arenas, Chile. West Germany requested Rauff's extradition in 1963, but the Chilean supreme court denied the request because the statute of limitations had taken effect...
...nearby Uruguay, meanwhile, 15 members of the notorious Tupamaros guerrilla organization escaped from Montevideo's Punta Carretas prison through a recently built tunnel. Two days later, Tupamaros staged six fatal ambushes around Montevideo, killing two policemen, a naval officer, and a former Cabinet under secretary. Eight Tupamaros, including two of the prison escapees, also lost their lives. The outbreak of violence caused President, Juan María Bordaberry to ask the Uruguayan Congress to suspend individual rights and to declare a "state of internal war." At week's end, Congress approved his requested measures, but only...
...break was executed with all the attention to detail and derring-do of a commando raid. Early one evening last week, two well-dressed young men called at the home of Billy Rial Castillo, 30, a Mormon missionary who lives across the street from Montevideo's Punta Carreta federal prison. "We are Tupamaros," said the men as they pulled out pistols and identified themselves as members of the urban guerrilla group that has served as a model for terrorists in many of the world's major cities. "We need this house for an operation." The operation...
BASF Bangor (U.S. Punta Division...
...latest incident occurred during a period of relative calm. The Tupamaros had threatened a "hot summer" for prosperous vacationers at Uruguay's Punta del Este, and even sent letters to hundreds of Argentine tourists who own or rent houses in the beach resort, warning them to stay away this year. But the wave of terrorism failed to materialize, the government cut rates on everything from ferry fares across the River Plate to hotel prices, and the flow of tourists began to swell after a slow start. Even so, authorities estimate that only 200,000 tourists will visit this summer...