Word: returned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...abductors' note was signed by two bands-the National Liberation Action Group, a Brazilian anti-government underground outfit, and the October 8 Revolutionary Movement, or MR-8, a Castroite group that takes its name from the date of Che Guevara's 1967 capture in Bolivia. In return for Elbrick's life, the terrorists made two imaginative demands, to which the government hastily agreed. First, Brazilian newspapers, radio and TV stations had to run a tiresome, 950-word anti-government "manifesto." Second, the government was forced to release 15 political prisoners and fly them to sanctuary in Mexico...
...Canton, he began preparing for his eventual return to Viet Nam. Nationalism, Ho saw, was the foundation on which an independent Viet Nam could be built. To this end, he began organizing young Vietnamese nationalists exiled in China, slowly building the organization that was to become his apparatus of power. In the process, he proved that he could be utterly cruel...
...deliver a nationwide address that afternoon, Kapwepwe complained that he was the victim of "mudslinging in the press," that government ministers were rude and abusive, and that his fellow Bembas were being discriminated against. Kapwepwe obviously hoped that his well-publicized resignation would pave the way for an eventual return to power-perhaps to Kaunda's office-by popular acclaim. The 47-year-old tribal leader is admired by many thousands of Zambians, many of whom still wear the collarless Nehru-style "freedom shirts" that Kapwepwe wore as a "general" in the revolution...
...defense gets one man who refuses to cast a guilty vote, "it's a hung jury and they're the winners." Then the judge's charge to the jury. "You'll hear all the conditions that have to be met before the jury can return a guilty verdict," said Mosley. "You'll wonder how anyone is ever found guilty...
...that degree, Dona Flor is a long, savory inside joke. It is not, however, malicious, Amado too plainly believes that he lives in God's country. He may even be trying to provide some benevolent fat deity with a narrative blueprint for his own future return...