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...year old College commuter was on the critical list of Faulkner Hospital early this morning, suffering from a bullet wound in the right temple...
This week in Jerusalem, spiritual capital of three great faiths, hatred is scheduled to take a 52-hour moratorium. As in years past, Moslem and Jew will lay aside their guns so that the Christian world may celebrate the birth of the Prince of Peace. Early Christmas Eve, at bullet-pitted Mandelbaum Gate in Jerusalem, a joyous and expectant caravan begins to form on the Jewish side. These are 3,000 Christians who live in Israel-most of them Arabs and all but a handful Catholics-cut off all year from their kinfolk by the Arab-Israeli war. They yell...
...bullet that killed Lebanon's first and greatest Premier, brilliant, little Riad el Solh (TIME, July 30, 1951), distressed the generous heart of old Ibn Saud, autocrat of Saudi Arabia. The old lion of the desert could always count on an ally when El Solh was representing Lebanon. Ibn Saud wept and vowed to look after his old friend's widow and four daughters. Tragically in the patriarchal Arab world, El Solh died without leaving...
...commission that investigated Communist executions in Estonia, where the late Andrei Zhdanov was the Red overlord. The commission found some 200 corpses buried in the prison yard in the city of Tartu. Most had been shot in the back of the neck. But "several didn't have any bullet holes at all; their heads had been crushed...
...garden of a large house that had been occupied by the NKVD, the investigators found 113 bodies in ten graves. At the bottom of each grave were two corpses with bullet holes in the tops of their skulls; the other victims had been shot in the skull from behind. Said Grantskalns: "The only explanation we could make was that . . . two were chosen to dig the pit and then shot when they had finished, [and the rest] were shot at the edge...