Word: garrisons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...district attorney of Louis Parish, La., Jim Garrison, also announced that he had solved the JFK assassination. His theory was that a conspiracy was headed by the director of New Orleans' International Trade Mart and a liberal thinker. Clay L. Shaw, Garrison insisted that Shaw had met with Oswald and master pilot and gun enthusiast David Ferrie, and that the three had planned the killing. Oswald had perpetrated the crime, and was then set up as a scapegoat by his fellow conspirators. Shaw went to trial in highly publicized proceedings, and was found not guilty. Garrison was also convinced...
Ferrie's prominence in the Garrison accusations also not the stage for a CIA-Mafia-big labor conspiracy. Ferrie, in his capacity as a pilot, allegedly flew the accused godfather of the Southwestern Mafia, Carlos Miscello, back to New-Orleans from Guatemula City after his deportation by then. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy 348 his campaign against organized crime...
Nationally marine recruiting has increased. Recruiters in Baltimore, Miami, Chicago, Evansville, Ind., and Austin, Texas all said they were deluged with applicants since Sunday's bombing of the Marine garrison in Beirut and Tuesday's multinational invasion of Grenada, led by Marines and Army Rangers...
...government and its army knew that they must make a stand. At midweek Gemayel, who has been slow in his efforts to broaden his political base or even to exert strong personal leadership during the current crisis, suddenly appeared at Suq al Gharb to visit his beleaguered army garrison, even as it came under yet another tank and artillery attack...
...never be. Ye Jianying and Li Xiannian, both old marshals, led the coup. But I rest my knowledge only on the sum phrases I squeezed out of the deputy chief of staff of the army at the time?General Wu Xiuquan, now retired and old. "We controlled the garrison," he said. "We moved into Zhongnanhai (the imperial quarters). No bloodshed, no resistance. We arrested the four, one by one, in their homes." The people of China had had enough of the madness and violence. Not until six days later, Oct. 12, did the people of China learn the madness...