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"The situation is completely under control," said Verwoerd soothingly, but he acted like a man who feared imminent revolution on a national scale. Before dawn on Wednesday, even before the emergency declaration was fully in effect, his detectives fanned out in simultaneous raids throughout the nation to arrest scores of...
But it was hundreds of miles away in coastal Natal that the lightning struck next. Out from the tough slums of Cato Manor, the big African location near the lovely port city of Durban, surged three phalanxes of angry blacks waving ax handles and carrying stones. Two groups were turned...
But if allowed to discharge as an open spark, this single shelf alone produces the electrical jolt of a smallish natural flash of lightning. When Zeus is finished and all its capacitors fire in unison, they will have roughly 100 times as much power. The discharge will flow for only...
As Camus himself phrased it: "One cannot be free at the expense of others." To extract from such sick, vast-scaled cruelty and violence such mere copybook wisdom seems at the same time elaborate and insufficient. In any case, what turns Caligula into a pathologically fascinating figure keeps him from...
Last week, as the returns came in, U Nu took a decisive lead over U Ba Swe, once his lieutenant, now his bitter rival, who lost his own constituency. But if Ne Win's army would now step down, it was by no means stepping out of the picture...