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...threw a grenade toward a nearby espresso bar and hamburger counter, where General Donato Miranda Acosta, the military attaché at the Mexican embassy in Rome, was sipping coffee with his secretary, Genoveva Jaime Cisneros, who was there to see him and his family off on a vacation trip to Frankfurt. Miranda Acosta and Cisneros were probably the first to be killed. Then the attackers raked the 820-ft.-long terminal with bullets, hitting people waiting for an E1 A1 flight and others at nearby TWA and Pan Am counters. The men jumped up and down in a frenzy, screaming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Terrorism: Ten Minutes of Horror | 6/21/2005 | See Source »

...want to show the good things about Mexicoand share the culture with you with our dances,"said dancer Genoveva Tavera...

Author: By Asya M. Muchnick, CONTRIBUTING REPORTER | Title: Mexican Events Draw Crowd | 10/5/1992 | See Source »

...Although they were U.S. citizens, over 21 and literate in Spanish, two Los Angeles County residents discovered that they were ineligible to vote because they could not pass an English literacy test required by state law. Genoveva Castro and Jesus Parra challenged the requirement on the ground that it violated their 14th Amendment right to equal protection of the laws. In a pioneering decision, the California Supreme Court ruled that the right to vote cannot be denied solely on the basis of the English literacy test. "It would be ironic," said the court, "that petitioners, who are heirs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Law: Dissent Through the Courts | 4/27/1970 | See Source »

...Accra. No one believed him, of course, but there were plenty of reasons-apart from wanting his Redeemer's job back -to bring Kwame home. One of them was a lissome mulatto girl who, Ghanaian police last week announced, was Nkrumah's mistress. Her name was Genoveva Marais, and she had been Kwame's playmate on weekends at his country estate. To keep her happy, he had given her a job at Ghana Television and bought her a red Thunderbird convertible...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ghana: A Longing for Home | 3/11/1966 | See Source »

Symphony in G Major, Number 6, "Surprise," Haydn Overture Genoveva, Schumann...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: FOURTH OF SYMPHONY SERIES | 1/14/1915 | See Source »

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