Word: rez
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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French administrators tamed the Tuaregs only by treating them with moderation. In return for giving up their rez-zous-raids for slaves and plunder-and such practices as impaling thieves on spikes placed under their chins and armpits, the Tuaregs were permitted to roam the Sahara as if there were no boundaries. And the French always winked when the Tuaregs cheated on their cattle taxes...
...victory over the rebels and announced the death of the Castroites' leader. After days of searching, troops moved in on a gathering of guerillas at a sawmill near the town of San José de las Matas in the central mountains. When the shooting ended, Manuel Tavárez Justo, 35, avowed Marxist and admirer of Castro, was dead, along with 14 of his comrades. Five others were captured. At first, Tavárez Justo's death was called a suicide, but later the government said that he had been shot to death in a gunfight with...
...officers. He tried to ram through drastic economic and social reforms, but his successor paid too little attention to the military. Within three years, his Action Democrática party was turned out by another coup that led to the brutal, ten-year rule of Dictator Marcos Pérez Jimènez, a general. His next chance at office, Betancourt went all out to convince the small (33,000 men) but powerful armed forces that they had nothing to fear from democracy...
...makes her way past bars and tacky tourist shops to the Municipal Palace, where she meets a Mexican lawyer by prearrangement, signs the great registration ledger of the clerk of the court, pays one dollar, and gets a slip of paper certifying that she is indeed in Juárez...
Bigamists & Bribes. The catch is in the key concept of jurisdiction. Unless the Juárez court also has jurisdiction over the other partner to the marriage, that partner can upset the divorce in his home state simply by bringing it to court. The practice until recently has been to arrange for two Mexican lawyers in Juárez, one with power of attorney for the absent spouse. The judge also incorporates into the divorce the Stateside agreement in which husband and wife settled property, alimony, and custody of children...