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...which she sailed." Even so, the author largely absolves Mountbatten of responsibility for the failure of the bloody 1942 raid on Dieppe, a sacrifice made inevitable by pushing and shoving between Franklin D. Roosevelt and Winston Churchill. And Ziegler argues convincingly that Mountbatten's handling of the transfer of power in India in 1947 was a success, considering political realities there. He opposed the splitting off of Muslim Pakistan from India and tried to prevent it. But religion had its customary disastrous effect on politics. Hindus and Muslims despised each other; partition and the bloodshed that followed, says Ziegler, were...
...robbery last week is one of the largest cash heists in U.S. history, the record being the $11 million stolen from a Sentry armored car in the Bronx in 1982. The theft is one of several holdups in the past few years for the once impregnable security- and cash-transfer company. Only one day after the New York stickup, two masked men with revolvers filched $106,000 from a Wells Fargo guard in Miami Lakes...
...greatest coup was in 1796, when he received 371 sheets by Durer in a transfer from the imperial court library in Vienna. Not all were genuine, and scores were lost by theft during his lifetime, thanks to a corrupt employee who sold them to dealers, but the Albertina collection today is to Durer what the royal collection at Windsor is to Leonardo...
...surprise move, Barrantes retired from the race, possibly fearing an overwhelming defeat for the far left in a second round of balloting. His action opens the way for Garcia to be sworn in as successor to President Fernando Belaunde Terry on July 28 in Peru's first transfer of power from one elected government to another in 40 years. Barrantes' decision to pull out came 36 hours after guerrillas, believed to be from the Maoist movement known as Sendero Luminoso (Shining Path), machine-gunned a car carrying the country's chief election officer, Domingo Garcia Rada, 72. Garcia Rada...
...conducting research in "geography." Once inside, he began meeting with resistance leaders and filing pieces for such publications as The New Republic and The Nation under the pseudonym James North. Swanson, whose visit to the region coincided with the rise of Black militance in South Africa and the transfer of power in Rhodesia, watched his planned several-month visit stretch to a year, then two, then four and a half...