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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...children off on "holidays"' in nearby Portuguese Angola, Abako's party organ Notre Kongo issued a warning of trouble to come. "The hour of testing has arrived. The aliens will try to install a new regime that will be no change from the old . . . They will kill if Congolese are not careful. From the 18th to the 31st of December, you will immediately go home every night. Don't sleep too deeply. If your leaders are arrested, abandon worldly goods and homes and become prisoners with your wives and children. We are determined to sacrifice everything...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AFRICA: Bumps in Freedom Road | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...back into the raucous nightclub world that was her life. Her manager begged her not to go on; her musicians refused to accompany her. But the dowdy, husky-voiced sob-sister from the streets of Montmartre insisted: "If you don't let me go on, I'll kill myself...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: HEADLINERS: Love, Always Love | 12/28/1959 | See Source »

...killer, it turns out, is an impotent psychopath who murders women because he can't bring himself to kill his unfaithful wife. But his wife loves him, as does his mother, and the two women compete fiercely to protect him, making it extremely complicated for Maigret...

Author: By Alice E. Kinzler, | Title: Inspector Maigret | 12/14/1959 | See Source »

...Czechoslovakia during the night, entered Austria at the tiny border town of Bernhardsthal. Since the Monats were traveling on diplomatic passports, Austrian customs of cials merely passed them by. Arriving at Vienna's East Station at 2:50 the next afternoon, the Monats had ten hours to kill before their train departed for Yugoslavia. Some time in that ten hours, they vanished...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: POLAND: Valuable Catch | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

...eyes glinting hatred, a young Panamanian pointed a finger at the U.S. soldier in front of him on the border between the Canal Zone and Panama City. "I am going to kill that one," he shouted. "That one right there." Bombarded with hate-U.S. propaganda from radio stations and newspapers for three weeks since their last flag-planting invasion of the Canal Zone, students and slum dwellers were lusting for violence. Despite last-minute attempts by the wealthy clique that runs the country to turn off the hatred, the rioters' target was again the U.S. and its canal...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: PANAMA: Fanned Flames | 12/7/1959 | See Source »

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