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Were the two crashes at the same place merely a tragic coincidence? Paris newspapers did not think so, darkly hinted at sabotage. They pointed out that the first plane carried Henri Maux, French government official returning to Paris from strife-torn Indo-China with important documents which he had prepared for an interstate conference between Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos. Scheduled for June 26, the conference had to be postponed as a result of Maux's death. Also on the first plane: Raymond Rivet of the French Ministry of Finance. Rivet carried with him a full report on drug...
...world knows that China's Communist masters face plenty of trouble in trying to rule their vast, war-torn country; the surprise was that Communist Boss Mao Tse-tung more or less freely admitted the fact. In his first "state of the nation" report to the Central Committee of the Chinese Communist Party two weeks ago, Mao avoided the self-praise that the world has come to expect of Communist leaders, and listed some of Red China's problems...
...waterfront, two coal barges burned and smoked. The pier had disappeared and so had the lighters and the twelve railroad cars. The Stink House was a torn, shattered wreck; fire danced in its innards. Unexploded mines were scattered for hundreds of yards, embedded in coal piles and backyards, teetering on roofs. In a still smoking area, littered with dead fish, four bodies were found, but that was all. There was no trace of the 31 men who had been working on the dock. They had been blown to bits...
...Viet Nam gradual independence within the new French Union. Bao was persuaded. On March 8, 1949, he signed the document creating the new Indo-Chinese Republic which he would head as chief of state. As he left the gaudy safety of the Riviera for the hazards of a country torn by civil war, he grinned and said: "I risk my skin." French Communists snarled: "Cet empereur des boites de nuit [this nightclub emperor...
...pilgrimage to the ancient refectory of Santa Croce in the 19th Century, found it had become a bustling carpet factory; to view what remained of its frescoes he was obliged to scale a loom. He saw a whole street of Florence, including the quarters of Donatello and Bronzino, torn down to make room for a cheap-jack row of shops devoted to "bijouterie and parfumerie...