Although PAGAD's leadership denied involvement, PAGAD's G-Force, operating in small cells, was believed responsible for killing a large number of gang leaders, and also for a bout of urban terrorism — particularly bombings — in Cape Town.

PAGAD's leaders have become known for making anti-semitic statements.

PAGAD's operations largely ceased after the arrest and prosecution of its leaders in 2000.

Its climactic role was to pursue and demoralize a defeated enemy but this chance never came in the Atlanta campaign.

Poirot even sent Miss Carnaby two hundred pounds as a final payoff before her dog kidnapping campaign came to an end.

This campaign came to an end after the Mykonos restaurant assassinations, because a German court publicly implicated senior members of the government and issued arrest warrants for Ali Fallahian, the head of the Iranian Intelligence.

Trier was taken on 26 October and Landau fell on 23 November to the Margrave of Baden and Prince Eugene ; with the fall of Trarbach on 20 December, the campaign season for 1704 came to an end.

G. Maximoff ) In response to the anarchists ' resistance, the Cheka orchestrated a massive retaliatory campaign of repression, executions, and arrests against all opponents of the Bolshevik government, in what came to be known as " Red Terror ".

In the following campaign, Hun armies came alarmingly close to Constantinople, sacking Sardica, Arcadiopolis and Philippopolis along the way.

The Scottish acceptance of Magnus III as King of the Isles came after the Norwegian king had conquered Orkney, the Hebrides and the Isle of Man in a swift campaign earlier the same year, directed against the local Norwegian leaders of the various island petty kingdoms.

When Graydon Creed was running for President ( with a heavy anti mutant campaign ) Bobby was chosen to infiltrate in the campaign, his father stand out in a crowd and spoke in favor of the mutants, this came as a surprise to Bobby.

Like others who were later prominent in the Third Reich, Goebbels came into contact with the Nazi Party in 1923, during the campaign of resistance to the French occupation of the Ruhr.

Several of Dole's other campaign ideas came from Kemp and Bill Bennett's Empower America, which had Jeane Kirkpatrick, Weber, Forbes and Alexander as principals.

To compensate Prussia for these losses ( and partly because Hitler had a personal dislike for Lübeck after it had refused to allow him to campaign there in 1932 ), the 711-year-long independence of Lübeck came to an end and almost all its territory was incorporated into Schleswig-Holstein.

He came out of detention to an altered political scene — the Muslim League for example, which a few years earlier had appeared marginal, " now occupied the centre of the political stage " and the topic of Jinnah's campaign for Pakistan was a major talking point.

On 30 November 1939, after a futile year-and-a-half campaign to persuade the Finnish government to cede territory to the Soviet Union and give up some sovereignty by conceding specific military and political favors, the Soviet Union launched an offensive against Finland, starting what came to be known as the Winter War.

Although most of those directly involved in the campaign believe that the rally really came to widespread attention only after the election itself.

Angered by what he came to believe were Mustafa's plans to claim the throne, the following summer upon return from his campaign in Persia, Suleiman summoned him to his tent in the Ereğli valley, stating he would " be able to clear himself of the crimes he was accused of and would have nothing to fear if he came ".

The NATO campaign came under severe criticism for its attacks and many inaccurate bombings across Yugoslavia which killed many civilians.

The Wild Cards series of science fiction books came from an Albuquerque, New Mexico campaign gamemastered by George R. R. Martin, and played in by other science fiction writers.

For the 1735 campaign the allied forces in northern Italy came under the command of the Duke de Noailles, elevated to Marshal after his successful contributions to the Rhine campaign.

By the end of the campaign, Anderson's support came mostly from college students.

The campaign never came to a major battle, and Llywelyn soon realised he had no choice but to surrender.

He also felt that Sigil came about because it was natural, because the planes needed a crossroads, and that the campaign needs a center which could be both a place for adventure and a place to hide, where characters could get to and from it quickly.

Ultimately, the name change campaign lasted for a three year period from 1982 to 1984 ( Datsun badged vehicles had been progressively fitted with small " Nissan " and " Datsun by Nissan " badges from the late 1970s onward ) until the Nissan name was given prominence in 1983-although in some export markets vehicles continued to wear both the Datsun and Nissan badges until 1986.

The prominence of Hubbard's name and the lavish funding of the contest awards, publicity and ceremonies have led some to speculate that the contest is part of a campaign by the Church of Scientology to promote Hubbard's status in the science fiction and literary communities.

The Klan's prominence in Louisiana was the primary issue of the campaign.

Active throughout the Troubles, its armed campaign gained prominence in the early 1990s through Johnny Adair's ruthless leadership of the Lower Shankill 2nd Battalion, C. Company, which resulted in a greater degree of tactical independence for the UFF.

A member of the Partician gens Valeria, Valerius first came to prominence in 349 BC when he served as a Military tribune under the consul Lucius Furius Camillus who was on campaign against the Gauls of northern Italy.

The term gained national prominence during the 1928 presidential campaign when many Southern voters disliked several items on Democratic candidate Al Smith's platform, as well as his Catholicism, but voted for him regardless.

Founded in 1854 by Northern anti-slavery expansion activists and modernizers, the Republican Party rose to prominence with the election of Abraham Lincoln, the first Republican to campaign on the Northern principles of anti-slavery.

Kingston gained prominence in 1998 when she led a sit-in of journalists at the federal election campaign launch of the One Nation Party in the Queensland town of Gatton.

William Jennings Bryan rose to national prominence when he built his historic ( though unsuccessful ) 1896 presidential campaign around the argument that deflation caused by the gold standard made it harder for everyday citizens to start new businesses, expand their farms, or build new homes.

He achieved wider prominence in 1972 during a campaign against the corruption associated with the appointment of a new Catholicos of the Georgian Orthodox Church, of which he was a " fervent " adherent.

Simon gained national prominence after criticizing President George H. W. Bush during the 1992 presidential campaign.

He came to prominence during the 1970s for leading the New South Wales Builders ' Labourers Federation ( BLF ) in the famous Green Bans, whereby the BLF led a successful campaign to protect the built and natural environment of Sydney from excessive and inappropriate development.

It gained prominence when its 1861 campaign for improvements in working conditions led to the Bakehouse Regulations Act 1863.

Rassman gained national prominence during the 2004 Presidential election when he publicly denounced the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth's campaign against Kerry.

During this period, the SED launched a massive propaganda campaign to win citizens to its Soviet-style socialism and to restore the " worker " to prominence.

He came to national prominence during the 1860 election campaign for the Boden Chair of Sanskrit at Oxford University, in which he stood against Max Müller.

On 29 October, the PP lost the general election, though his role in the campaign gave him national prominence.

NFA had a campaign of non-violent direct action which gained it prominence in the media.

He rose to international prominence as the highest goalscorer for Latvia in their successful Euro 2004 qualification campaign, with 6 goals in 10 matches.

The organization was founded by Randy " Hurricane " Hayes and Mike Roselle in 1985, and first gained national prominence with a grassroots organizing campaign that in 1987 succeeded in convincing Burger King to cancel $ 35 million worth of destructive Central American rainforest beef contracts.

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He first came to statewide prominence as a campaign manager for his predecessor, Frank G. Clement, and as a member of his cabinet.

Abraham Thomas Kovoor ( April 10, 1898 – September 18, 1978 ) was an Sri Lankan professor and rationalist who gained prominence after retirement for his campaign to expose as frauds various Indian and Sri Lankan " god-men " and so-called paranormal phenomena.

She gained prominence for Bill Clinton's criticism of her remarks about race in the United States during the 1992 presidential campaign.