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For 3½ hours the broken body of Mohammed Said Kanibi, clad in copper-red execution clothes and draped with a huge sign proclaiming the man a spy for Israel, dangled from a scaffold in front of Amman's old Roman amphitheater (which survives from the days when Amman...
The execution was carried out with the utmost consideration for the victim, for in his term in office schoolmasterly Guy Mollet had won national popularity. "We cannot give you our confidence without betraying our voters," apologized Farmer Deputy Joseph Cadic. Mollet caught the drift, sighed: "Oh well, 'twill be...
To any challenge of violent opposition by bitter-end Peronistas, Aramburu has been harsh. A year ago, when Peronista General Juan Jose Valle, Aramburu's classmate at the Military Academy, led a shooting attempt at counterrevolution, the President, weeping, signed an order for Valle's execution by firing...
Death Is Final. Though Picasso shaped a whole half-century of art in his image, it is clear that since the end of World War II he no longer dominates the whole canvas of modern art. He believes a work should be constructed, is distressed by the work of many...
He managed, however, to make a good impression on some of his colleagues and fellow-townsmen by his generosity and good temper, and his mother exclaimed, after the execution, "Yes, they hanged my saintly Billy! He was a bit of a scamp right enough, but a good son to me...