Word: montenegro
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Wolfe's hints about his origin place his birth in the early 1890s, and allude obscurely to the old Balkan kingdom of Montenegro. Holmes, after his final encounter with Professor Moriarty in Switzerland in 1891, is believed to have traveled through Italy. Is it possible that he ended up in Montenegro and solaced himself by having an affair-perhaps with his old flame, Opera Singer Irene Adler, who happened to be touring the Balkans? Egad! Do you suppose...
...Lieut. Commander Ernest Munro, who were murdered in Guatemala City last January. The killing of Ambassador Mein ended a promising four-month lull in Guatemala's violence. It set back hopes for new political stability, encouraged only last month when President Julio César Méndez Montenegro's moderate reform program won endorsement in countrywide municipal elections...
With the war going against them, many guerrillas sought refuge in the capital, joining forces with urban terrorists who had been relatively quiet. Then, early last month, President Julio César Méndez Montenegro ordered an increase in the sales tax and bus fares, and the terrorism that had been largely confined to the countryside flared up in the capital. Communist fire bombs exploded in Guatemala City's two largest department stores, causing more than $1,000,000 in damage...
Over the next quarter century, La Belle Otero's distinguished clientele came to include the crowned heads of England, Spain. Belgium, Russia, Germany, Persia, Monaco and Montenegro, as well as assorted dukes and princes, not to mention such uncommon commoners as Italy's D'Annunzio, an American Vanderbilt, and French Premier Aristide Briand. But she wasn't merely a name sleeper; she democratically slept with all who could afford her huge fees. "Don't forget," she once told her friend Colette, "that there is always a moment in a man's life, even...
...ambassador to El Salvador in 1954, he tried to thwart the U.S.-supported military coup that toppled Arbenz. The new government stripped Asturias of his citizenship, and sent him once again into exile. Last year, after the election of Moderate Leftist Julio César Méndez Montenegro, Asturias was invited back to his country, where he rejoined the foreign service...