Word: bello
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...precisely executed (murmured one resident Englishman: "Sandhurst training certainly leaves its mark"). In the dusty northern capital of Kaduna, Major Chukwuma Nzeogwu, 29, had been holding night maneuvers for six straight weeks, once even led his troops through a mock invasion of the sprawling white palace of Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna (Emir) of Sokoto, religious leader of 12.5 million Nigerian Moslems, boss of the nation's ruling political party, and the real power behind the Balewa government. So accustomed had the city become to the sound of night gunfire during the maneuvers that not even the police bothered...
...Prime Minister, the number two man in the Northern People's Congress, shrewdly refused to comment on this article. But his boss, Alhaji Sir Ahmadu Bello, the Sardauna of Sokoto, Premier of the North, and President of the Northern People's Congress, denounced the President and proclaimed (not for the first time), "Sooner or later we shall have a showdown...
...music demonstration, Hortensio (Todd Drexel) at least actually plays the 'cello on stage. And when Lucentio (Robert Benedict) pretends to give Bianca a Latin lesson, "Hic ibat Simois," etc. has been supplanted by "Gallia est omnis," etc. on the undoubtedly accurate grounds that Caesar's De Bello Gallico will be more familiar to audiences than Ovid's Heroides. One wonders, however, why any of these three gentlemen would want to marry Bianca, for Geneva Bugbee makes her an insipid nullity...
Keeping the Promise. Lieut. Colonel Michael Smolen, 44, deputy chief of the U.S. Air Force mission in Venezuela, lives in the Bello Monte section of Caracas, only four blocks from where Colonel James K. Chenault was kidnaped last year. Ever since then, occasional threats have promised another kidnaping, and one afternoon last week Smolen was specifically fingered. To be on the safe side, Mission Chief Colonel Henry Choate, 47, came by the next morning to give him a lift to work. Even so, the kidnaping took only 20 seconds. As Smolen was walking to Choate...
...pressures great. "If a student refuses to submit to our discipline," says Antonio Pinilla, rector of the Catholic-influenced University of Lima, "we expel him." At Catholic U. in Buenos Aires, students must attend at least 75% of the lectures-or get out. A student at Andrés Bello in Caracas must pass every subject. If he flunks one, he is allowed two makeup exams; failing these, he is through...