Word: ren
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Boisserie (the woodland glade), in the tiny farming village of Colombey-les-Deux-Eglises, 120 miles southeast of Paris. At noon, he ate a robust lunch, topped off by one of his favorite cream pastries and his usual cup of extra-strong coffee. He chatted with a neighboring farmer, René Piot, about fencing an adjoining piece of land that he had recently purchased...
...lifted the state of emergency that had been in effect since the murder last month of the army commander, General René Schneider. Ten men have been charged in the case, including retired General Roberto Viaux Marambio, who led an abortive rightist army uprising in October 1969. Addressing 80,000 people at a football stadium later in the week, Allende described the assassination as an example of "the criminal lunacy of those who have always exploited the people." As for the future, "the anti-capitalist movement has assumed power in Chile," he said, and would swiftly create "a republic...
Early in the 1960s, Quebec's Premier Jean Lesage vowed to make Quebeckers the maîtres chez nous (masters in our own house) within the Federation. By 1968, René Lévesque, once a member of Lesage's Cabinet, helped found the Parti Québecois, which demanded political separation from Canada. Last spring, Lévesque's party won 24% of Quebec's vote in provincial elections...
...momentum of a major trend in Latin America. A year ago, when he launched his government of "revolutionary nationalism," Ovando cast himself as a general of the left. He courted the same loose coalition of students, workers, and young, socially oriented military officers that Bolivia's flamboyant General René Barrientos had used as a power base during his regime. Ovando brought left-wing intellectuals into his Cabinet, expropriated the holdings of American-owned Bolivian Gulf Oil Co., and gave Communist labor leaders free reign in the troubled, underproductive tin mines. But after a few months, conservative businessmen...
...kidnapers espouse a cause that has inspired Quebeckers ever since General Wolfe's redcoats defeated Montcalm's French army on the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and imposed British rule. In last April's provincial elections, René Levesque's Parti Québecois, which demands an independent Quebec free of political ties to Canada, won 24% of the vote. But while most separatists seek their goals by peaceable means, a number seek to turn their fight for French separatism into full-scale urban guerrilla war. The Liberation Front, which probably numbers no more than...