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CHALLENGE OF MODERNISATION, by I. R. Sinai. An Israeli scholar argues that democratic ideals and Western aid will be largely wasted on underdeveloped countries until ruthless, single-minded leaders overcome their nations' psychological inertia and modernize their social structure toward the future economic "takeoff" point when they can begin to make realistic use of the West's largesse and technology...
...bodies. A typhoid epidemic erupted among the city's 220,000 Congolese, with only one doctor left. Snipers kept up sporadic fire against all planes landing or taking off from Stanleyville's jungle-encircled jet strip, and after a Belgian International Air Service DC-4 crashed on takeoff, killing seven, civilian aircraft were banned from landing. At the same time, help for the rebels, according to some reports, was filtering in from the Sudan, where "President" Christophe Gbenye and his wild-eyed defense minister, Gaston Soumialot, were holed up in Khartoum...
...sportily dressed figure who took his place in the back seat was unmistakably Juan Perón, now 69. Secrecy and surprise were his watchwords-and his only hopes of success. When the Mercedes roared into Madrid Airport, Iberian Flight 991 to Rio was warming up on the takeoff strip. Shielded by a waiting cordon of police, Perón, Jorge Antonio and Delia Parodi scrambled aboard the DC-8, where six other Peronistas were waiting for them...
...being rescued is lifted with less of a jolt than the force of a 6-ft. jump. The man goes up almost vertically before he begins tracing a curved path into a position somewhat below and to the rear of the plane. The relative gentleness of the takeoff and the curved trajectory result from the interaction of several forces: the man's weight and air resistance, the speed and altitude of the plane, and the stretchability of the woven nylon line, which absorbs shock as it lengthens. Within five minutes of liftoff, the man is hoisted aboard the plane...
...Most Rev. Edward Daly, 70, Roman Catholic bishop of Des Moines since 1948, one of 22 American churchmen serving on Ecumenical Council commissions; of injuries sustained when the TWA Boeing 707 he was taking to Athens veered off the runway, slammed into a steamroller and exploded during an aborted takeoff at Rome's Leonardo da Vinci Airport, killing 48 of 73 passengers and crew...