Word: strongman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Brown's supporting cast is a strong one. Seniors Vaughan Clarke (12.0 scoring average). Jim Busam (10.9) and Eddie Morris (10.7) have played together for four years, and with the addition of strongman sophomore Brian Saunders, the Bruins have assembled a cast which may bring home an Ivy crown...
...only event in which the Engineers seriously challenged Harvard was the epee. With MIT holding a 4-2 edge, Crimson strongman John Hirschfeld squared off against MIT's Chip Farley...
...placed under house arrest by the civilian regime of Premier Constantine Caramanlis. Nonetheless, Papadopoulos had planned to run for Parliament in elections later this month, and there were rumors that his political ambitions went much further. To the policeman who knocked on his door, the former strongman looked as if he assumed "that we were bringing good news...
...internal politics might better have been avoided. Though Soviet propaganda blames the CIA for the Chilean coup and the death of Allende, Soviet intelligence analysts do not give the CIA any credit. The Russians think the fault lay with Allende himself for not being enough of a strongman. He temporized with constitutional processes when he should have disregarded them. He did not follow the example of Fidel Castro, who executed more than 1,000 of his opponents when he came to power; 15 years later, he still rules Cuba. Nor did the CIA have any better luck against...
...been as much economic activity as diplomatic. Cuba's trade with other Latin American nations may reach $100 million this year, up nearly 500% since 1969. To symbolize the importance he attaches to the recently developed trade with Cuba, Brigadier General Omar Torrijos Herrera, Panama's strongman, now smokes nothing but long Havana cigars. Before his death, Argentina's President Juan Perón granted Cuba $1.2 billion in credits to buy Argentine products, such as road-building equipment, mining machinery, textiles and household appliances. In July, at a trade fair outside Havana the Argentines sold...