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crash reptd near Foggia; 19 dead; $1,000,000 in gems lost
Cardenas revs workers' army
Loyalist pol collapse visioned (Carney); Loyalists mark May Day (Matthews); Rebels start drive northeast of Teruel
Makes pub statement by 23 Pa Cong urging wage-hr legis
Lr to N Thomas scoring ejection from Jersey City
1938Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho (died 1996)[†]
Moshoeshoe II, previously known as Constantine Bereng Seeiso, was the Paramount Chief of Basutoland, succeeding paramount chief Seeiso from 1960 until the country gained full independence from Britain in 1966. He was King of Lesotho from 1966 until his exile in 1990, and from 1995 until his death in 1996.