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...Models." Last week the very man who was briefing Hitler at the time the bomb went off-former Chief of Operations Adolf Heusinger, who survived both the bomb and arrest in Operation Thunderstorm to become inspector general of the new Bundeswehr-signed an appeal to be read to all troops. He praised the men of July 20 for "their Christian-humanist sense of responsibility," added that "their spirit and their attitudes are our models." It is now defense-force doctrine that a German officer may break his oath of loyalty when his commander in chief sets himself above...
...such official statements were too grand for so sentimental an occasion. One of the U.S. arrivals was so taken with emotion that he could not answer questions at customs, and soon the customs inspector was weeping too. One Lebanese mountaineer had carefully rehearsed one English phrase of greeting, boomed out "Hi, buddy," then lapsed into a rattle of Arabic. Some of the Americans' fractured Arabic was just as incomprehensible to their old-country friends. Michael Borane, 65, of Phoenix, Ariz., who had not been back to Beirut since he left at eight, doggedly set out to find his father...
Test of Character. In Madison, Wis., the state bureau of personnel advertised for an inspector for the beverage and cigarette division of the state tax department: "Young man with ability to drink moderately on the job when the occasion demands...
...evidence. Raul Castro, onetime traveler behind the Iron Curtain, now commander of Cuba's armed forces, boasts: "We are a political army. We fought to transform the economic and social structure of the nation." Assisting Raul are Reds or pinks in top army spots, including the army inspector general, the commander of Havana's La Cabana fortress, the commander of La Cabana's 7th Regiment, the army legal chief in Oriente, the military commander of Las Villas district...
Gideon of Scotland Yard. Cinemactor Jack Hawkins as a henpecked inspector in a fresh and frantic thriller...