Word: nicaragua
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...equivalent of the four-minute mile. In the improbable event that everything goes as he hopes it will, Chichester and his 57-ft. Gypsy Moth V will make Bissau, Portuguese Guinea, in 18 days, then cover the 4,000 miles of Atlantic to San Juan del Norte, Nicaragua, in 20 days−an astonishing average of 200 singlehanded miles sailed every day. The 1968 transatlantic race was won at a daily average 109.8 miles. "To increase the speed to 200 miles a day for 20 days is a very big jump indeed, for which one would need every possible advantage...
...apparently he did not feel that Dohrn and Leary belonged in that category. At week's end there were reports that the two had been asked to leave Algeria and were on their way to another guerrilla training ground: Jordan. Palestinian terrorists have trained radicals from West Germany, Nicaragua and the U.S. in camps outside Amman. A Canadian journalist touring a guerrilla camp in the Jordanian mountains, was astonished to find two young Montrealers in Bedouin headgear learning the craft of "selective assassination." The youths, both members of the F.L.Q., thought that problems with language and unfamiliar Soviet weapons were...
...brigade's brutal record prompted the government of President Julio César Méndez Montenegro to send Arana off to diplomatic exile in Nicaragua. But when the colonel returned to Guatemala last year to campaign for the presidency, he quickly gained the support of many of his countrymen. "If the voters agree with this insecurity, this chaos," he declared, "then I am not their candidate." Winding up his campaign two weeks ago in Zacapa, where he waged his successful antiguerrilla action, he told an audience of 8,000: "You know what it was like here before...