Word: suing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...realize that Begin and Sadat hold the spotlight with their soft-shoe routine, but I would like you to register my vote for the young, attractive and miraculous Premier of Spain-Don Adolfo Su...
...that very moment, as it happened, Spanish officials were investigating an abortive plot to overthrow the democratic government of Premier Adolfo Suárez and bring back authoritarian rule. The conspiracy, code-named Operation Galaxia after the café in which it was hatched, involved five officers in the paramilitary Civil Guard, the National Police and the army. Although details were sketchy, the plans apparently called for sympathetic members of the police to besiege Moncloa Palace, the seat of government, hold Suárez hostage and install their own people in power. The target date: Nov. 17, the day King...
...plot was thwarted when loyal officers got wind of it and warned Suárez. By nightfall on Nov. 16, a 100-man special operations force had moved into position to protect the palace, and Suárez had called in all his top military and police commanders and Defense Ministry officials. Meanwhile, two of the suspected plotters and a dissident general were arrested...
Four of the five Ts'ao family members are factory employees. Ts'ao Hung-ch'i and his wife Ch'en Su-ch'ing, both 42, and their oldest daughter, Ts'ao Su-wing, 24, work in Kweilin's Measuring Equipment Factory (micrometers, T squares, etc.). A younger daughter works at another plant, and their son is in school. As a factory worker's son, the boy has a good chance of being accepted at a university - if he can pass his exams and shows a "good attitude...