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Five steps later, he ran headlong into a Chinese grenade. Fragments tore into him; one passed through the armhole of his armored vest into his lung. Lieut. Braestrup fell, critically wounded...
...dubbed themselves "The General Assembly of Democratic Revolutionary Forces of the Nation," met at Saigon city hall, obviously with Diem's tacit approval. They denounced Bao Dai-"a puppet created by the French colonials . . . leading a dissolute life far from his people." They declared him "deposed," and tore his photograph from the wall and trampled on it. Claiming to speak for 18 nationalist parties, they urged Diem to repress the rebel sects and get rid of the 90,000-man French expeditionary force...
South Africa's Nationalist Prime Minister Johannes Gerhardus Strydom last week tore down the last big constitutional barrier to one-party racial control over his divided land. He had already packed South Africa's High Court bench, by adding five new judges favorable to the government; now he pressed through Parliament a bill endorsing his court-packing decree, and ensuring that a quorum of the new court would be able to override the South African constitution...
...dust. As the executioner raised his sword, following an old custom, he gave the kneeling man a passing jab in the shoulder, making him jerk forward so that his neck was stretched out tautly for the downcoming stroke. A minute later the mob fell upon the decapitated body and tore it to pieces. The Imam of Yemen was even...
...British West Indies and dignified officials from London's Colonial Office, attending a dance recital, leaped gaily up and joined the cast in a calypso "jump-up" while a steel band drummed and clanged. It was a week for exuberance in Trinidad: swiftly, almost offhandedly, the assembled leaders tore down the biggest roadblock in the way of fast-approaching nationhood for the British West Indian colonies...