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March 13, 1929

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GENERAL AND 1,200 MEN QUIT REBELS, SEIZE BORDER TOWN; JALISCO CHIEF JOINS REVOLT; ESCOBAR LEAVES SALTILLO Withdraws After Seizing Bank Funds as Federal Force Approaches. CULIACAN ALSO EVACUATED Capital Reports General Cruz in Retreat, but the Rebels Claim an Advance. SIMON AGUIRRE EXECUTED Washington Sends Troops to Border on the Call of Bisbee, Ariz. Yesterday's Developments in Mexico. 1,200 QUIT REBELS; TAKE BORDER TOWN Strategic Importance Noted. Rebels Report Sinaloa Advance. General Olachea Tricks Rebels. Counter-Move Under Way. Report Jalisco Chief with Rebels. Planes Gather at Mexicali. Troops Pour Into Torreon. Rebels Confident on Torreon. Arms Ordered Turned In. Borquez Interned Three Hours

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Gen Escobar issues decree governing rebel territory

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Zbigniew Messner

1929Zbigniew Messner, Polish economist and politician, 9th Prime Minister of the Republic of Poland (died 2014)[†]

Zbigniew Stefan Messner was a Polish communist politician and economist. His ancestors were of German Polish descent who had assimilated into Polish society. In 1972, he became Professor of Karol Adamiecki University of Economics in Katowice. In the 1980s, Messner held numerous high ranking posts within communist party apparatus. He was a member of the Central Committee of the Polish United Workers' Party (PZPR) from 1981 to 1990, when PZPR was dissolved, member of the PZPR Politburo from 1981 to 1988, Deputy Prime Minister from 1983 to 1985, member of Sejm from 1985 to 1989, Prime Minister of Polish People's Republic from 1985 to 1988 and member of the State Council of the Polish People's Republic from 1988 to 1989. Additionally in the 1960s Messner was the chairman of Piast Gliwice football club.