Word: sosa
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Thus one night last week began Fidel Castro's showpiece trial, first of a planned 1,000 trials in the Havana area, for a captured underling of exiled Dictator Fulgencio Batista. The defendant was Captain Jesus Sosa Blanco, 51, a brutal killer who commanded the Batista garrison at Holguin. Charged by Rebel Prosecutor Jorge Serguera with 56 murders, he faced certain conviction. He faced it with flair...
...Kill Him! Kill Him!" Dressed in a blue denim prison jacket, Sosa Blanco grinned at the crowd. He raised his manacled hands, postured like the villain of a rigged wrestling match. The mob yelled, "Kill him! Kill him!" "This is the Colosseum in Rome," jeered Sosa Blanco, when he got a turn at the microphone. "I met brave rebels in the mountains, not types like you here. All you do is talk...
Conservative Catholics frowned; rank and file Protestants, reluctant to attract attention, kept silent; wealthy Jews retreated. But Father Cucchetti, flanked by Rabbi Schlesinger and Methodist Minister Adam Sosa, did not lose zeal. "The three musketeers," as supporters tagged them, worked on their congregations. The rabbi persuaded two of his richest members to finance the movement; the Protestant pastor got backing from the U.S. National Conference of Christians and Jews; the priest managed to keep stodgy superiors from getting involved...
...replace them, Larrazabal chose two moderate civilians: Treasury Minister Arturo Sosa and Junta Secretary Edgard Sanabria. And, to help gloss over the reasons for the junta split, he announced at week's end the enactment of the long-awaited law laying down ground rules for elections next November...
...Argentina's money in his fumbling attempts. ¶ Jorge Antonio, Mercedes-Benz tycoon and Perón crony, profiteered on so vast a scale that a subcommittee named exclusively to investigate him seriously recommended a fine of more than $1 billion. ¶ Defense Minister José Humberto Sosa Molina got from Perón 265 car import licenses, each worth more than $5,000. Army Minister Franklin Lucero...