Sir Michael Oswald, expert in stud management who for many years advised the Queen and the Queen Mother on breeding racehorses – obituary
He would call the Queen two or three times a week, kept her informed of new foals born, and was impressed by her deep equestrian knowledge
28 April 2021 • 8:38pm
The Queen with her National Hunt Racing Adviser Sir Michael Oswald for the Investec Derby at Epsom on June 4 2016
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Sir Michael Oswald, who has died just short of his 87th birthday, was Manager and later Director of the Royal Studs at Sandringham from 1970 to 1999, and the Queen Mother’s racing manager from 1970 to 2002.
Wanted in Rome
13 Mar, 2021
The kidnapping and murder of Italy s former Prime Minister Aldo Moro by the terrorist group Brigate Rosse.
On 16 March 1978, Aldo Moro, former Italian Prime Minister and president of the Christian Democracy, was kidnapped. The kidnapping occurred in Via Mario Fani in Rome, by far-left terrorist organization the Red Brigades.
The attackers gunned down Moro s five personal bodyguards before taking him hostage. Then, on 9 May 1978, after 55 days of disputes, extensive searches, and proposed compromises, Moro was killed. His body was found in the back of a red Renault 4 in Via Michelangelo Caetani in the historic center of Rome, very close to both the Christian Democrat and Italian Communist Party headquarters.
American intelligence agents infiltrated a Spanish spy ring operating in Montreal during the Spanish-American War.
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In 1898 the United States rushed into war with Spain, which leaders in Washington saw as continuing to interfere in Cuba and other parts of Latin America. In hindsight, the Spanish-American War might have been avoided except for the jingoistic American press, which was clamoring for hostilities to start in the wake of the mysterious sinking of the USS
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