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...hours in an unexpectedly high-pitched voice. He appealed to sentiment, dwelling on his Algerian birth, and saying that all he owned was "a few square meters" of cemetery containing the bodies of his grandparents and parents. His one regret was that he did not "die on Algerian soil. Apart from that. I regret nothing...
...revolution." He warned: "We cannot rejoice because our brothers and sisters are still dying. Our day of celebration will come when we return to our native land. This day will be very soon." Added Colonel Boumedienne: "We will have reached our goal when the last enemy has left our soil...
...within a few hundred miles of the site. Hence the Krishna Menon plan presented at Geneva urging monitors in neutral nations near Russia would change nothing. To be above suspicion, any nuclear power must be ready to permit seismographs, accompanied by teams of trained foreign inspectors, on its soil...
...last decade has distributed to peasants more than half of his own 1,500,000 acres, is one of the few Iranian landlords with any liking for reform. Most cling tenaciously to the feudal system, which has given big landowners control of three-fourths of Iran's arable soil. Some 17,000 villages are owned outright by 160 wealthy families, and most of the nation's 16 million peasants are serfs...
...imitation of St. John the Baptist. But the prince collapsed and died before the honeymoon was over. Though his family accused Mary of murdering him by too many bedroom "fatigues," Mary inherited $4,000,000 in cash, several châteaux, and a few thousand choice acres of European soil...