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This week, in the heavily guarded prisoner's dock, Ahmed's prospects looked a little bleak. The government wanted to make an example of the rioters who had driven away foreign businessmen and almost ruined Cairo. But no one was selling Hussein short. He knew a lot of...
As boss of its 36 million people, little-known Kao Kang is one of Chinese Communism's big men. Not many visitors, even among those welcome in other parts of Red China, are permitted to see Kang's Manchuria,which Peking calls "the Northeast District." But in guarded...
At first the Air Staff wanted 163 wings (as the Air Force now describes them) by 1954, and Vandenberg pleaded for it in JCS meetings. The other members of the JCS balked. For one entire week last fall Vandenberg sat at his desk and glared moodily at the figures. Then...
But that night, the banished filed resignedly out the Black Palace's back gate. Each got 20 pesos, three packs of cigarettes and a packet of food, then climbed into a guarded boxcar drawn up on a spur. At Manzanillo, 600 dark miles later, the convicts would embark in...
He ran for Senator in absentia in 1948, and was elected. In 1949, Grau having given way to Carlos Prío as President, Batista finally went home. Guarded by 20 soldiers, he lived at Kuquine, talking with politicos, playing canasta, and keeping in trim by working out daily on...