Word: napoleons
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...military training center in La Union is basically a boot camp. Every 15 weeks about 250 recruits are transformed into troops, which President Jose ( Napoleon Duarte's government needs in its struggle against leftist guerrillas. Last week the trainees received a lesson in warfare when some 350 rebels, armed with mortars and rockets, staged an early-morning attack on the base. The young soldiers fought off the insurgents, but the two-hour battle exacted a bloody price: 42 of the trainees were killed and 62 were wounded. There were ten known rebel casualties...
...title "Kolberg" refers to a German town that had resisted Napoleon's attack. The filmmakers used the example of the town to try to inspire Germany--then suffering demoralizing losses in World War II--to stand firm against Allied forces...
...country's most extreme anti-Communist elements. There were rumors aplenty (but no proof) that he had links to right-wing death squads and that he was involved in the 1980 murder of Archbishop Oscar Arnulfo Romero. Just one year ago, he nearly defeated Christian Democrat Jose Napoleon Duarte in a closely fought presidential election. But last week the political career of Roberto ("Major Bob") D'Aubuisson, 42, was at least temporarily eclipsed, when he resigned as head of the ultra-rightist Nationalist Republican Alliance (ARENA), which he founded four years...
...Napoleon I, Emperor of the French: Eleanor DeLorme, Fogg Museum Christian Room...
...message was monitored last week on a radio frequency normally used by pilots. It included a list of demands and a recording of what sounded like the voice of Ines Guadalupe Duarte Duran, 35, the daughter of Salvadoran President Jose Napoleon Duarte, who was abducted by unidentified gunmen in San Salvador on Sept. 10. "I'm fine, I'm fine, Papa," the woman said, explaining that she was a prisoner of the Pedro Pablo Castillo Command of the antigovernment Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front...