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Franela & Corbata. Colombia's violence started in 1948 as an ugly political war between the country's Liberals and Conservatives-triggered by the assassination of Liberal Party Leader Jorge Eliecer Gaitan. Conservatives drove Liberals from their villages; Liberals in turn regrouped as guerrillas, making the plains their stronghold. Soon killing became an end in itself, sadistic and without cause. Some machete-wielding fighters specialized in the franela cut, in which the victim's head was sheared from his body with an incision resembling the circular neckline of a flannel undershirt; others preferred...
WORKS FROM THE KYOTO HAMLET OF FINE ARTS-French & Co.. 978 Madison Ave. at 76th. In 1961 four young Japanese artists founded a colony in Kyoto, a city that for centuries has been the stronghold of traditionalist art. Their work is being shown for the first time in the U.S., together with that of three colleagues...
...five hours, mortars and machine guns pounded the stronghold. Then, guns blazing, the paratroopers bulled through the gate, and the coup was countered-less than 42 hours after it began. One paratrooper and 15 rebels died in the fight...
...petty crooks who all know you're a "nigger-lover" and literally shake with their hate for you. Once out of jail, among the one group of whites, there began a withdrawal, a retreat, that was rationalized as a "waking up to the futility of demonstrations in this stronghold of southern racism and a turn to more realistic solutions to the problem." Kids who had been burning hot to lead the masses off to battle were suddenly very interested in selective patronage, voter registration, and federal contracting regulations. There was (is) validity to the turn, but it was a retreat...
...week against Ben Bella's year-old regime. To be sure, the motives included provincial pride, poverty and political ambition. But the root cause was Ben Bella's drive toward absolute power at the expense of his onetime, rebel comrades in Algeria's struggle for independence. Stronghold of the revolt was fabled Kabylia, a sweep of razor-spined mountains and deep gorges east of Algiers (see map). Populated by 1,000,000 fiercely independent Berbers who call themselves imazighen (free men), Kabylia was overrun by successive invasions of Arabs, Romans, Vandals, Spaniards, Turks, and finally the French...