Word: cordero
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...from the shadows came half a dozen teen-age youngsters. "Where's Frenchy?" demanded one. Nobody knew, although some were aware that cocky Frenchy Cordero, from downtown, had recently been chased out of the neighborhood after he tried to sell marijuana to a Clinton woman. The intruders withdrew. Scared, the Clinton kids decided to hurry on home. But as they started to go, the invaders appeared again...
...fighters swooped down on the hamlet of Purial de Pilon a few days after some rebels passed through, strafing and bombing it for 25 minutes; 40 of the 400 townspeople were killed, including 17 women and children who were later buried in a common grave. In Dos Bocas de Cordero, Batista's airmen killed 15 villagers (and eight cows). Planes machine-gunned a peasant's funeral, apparently mistaking the single file of mourners for rebels. The government put a price of $100,000 on Castro's head and sent 1,000 men to reinforce...
Princoton, led by Captain Nick Cordere at inside right, has one of the strongest defenses in the ease. Tiger goalie Bruce Raymer has allowed only four Brace Raymer has allowed only four goals, an average of 67 per game. Flanking Cordero are Bon Clark and Rudy Wachsman at inside left and right These three keystone a forward line that has scored better than goals a game...
Sentenced to 75 years, with parole eligibility in 25 years, were Lolita's henchmen: Rafael Cancel Miranda, 25, Andres Figueroa Cordero, 29, and Irving Flores Rodriguez, 28. They had also been convicted of a graver offense: assault with intent to kill...
...three hustled off to jail were Lolita Lebron, Rafael Cancel Miranda and Andres Figueroa Cordero−all members of the terrorist Nationalist party of Puerto Rico, the same group that made the attempt to storm Blair House and assassinate Harry Truman in 1950. A fourth member of the gang was picked up at a bus terminal. The four had left New York that morning, buying one-way railroad tickets in the expectation that they would lose their lives. In the woman's handbag, police found a penciled suicide note. "Before God, and the world," it said, "my blood claims...