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...Imperial Valley ranchers hate dove shooting for the damages done to people, pets, wildlife and clothes hanging on the clotheslines. The villagers stay away from the country through fear of being "winged" by trigger-wild Davy Crocketts from the city...
...captured four F.A.L.N. hoods hiding out in a midtown apartment. One of them was a real prize: José Rómulo Niño, 27, a leader in the spectacular hijacking of the government freighter Anzoátegui, the brains behind a $250,000 stickup last August, and trigger man this month in a police station raid that left one policeman dead. But no sooner was the good news announced than the government discovered that nine other F.A.L.N. leaders had somehow escaped from a maximum-security prison in western Venezuela. At large again was Fabricio Ojeda, 34, a former...
...could arise from the investigation, demanded by some 20 members led by Buddhist Ceylon, into South Viet Nam's treatment of Buddhists; and Indonesia promises a hot fight against Malaysia's taking over the seat formerly occupied by Malaya. The military operation in the Congo will again trigger a bitter controversy. But for all the noise ahead, Canada's Prime Minister Lester Pearson felt the 18th to be "the Assembly of opportunity." Pearson backed Secretary-General U Thant's request for a permanent peace-keeping force composed of specially trained units from contributing nations. "The Scandinavian...
...would think that such autocratic and slothful leadership might trigger revolt. After all, economic conditions are also pretty pitiful. Because their manioc crops have been repeatedly plundred by Congolese soldiers and Katangese ex-gendarmes, many Lunda have stopped planting, and more than one village suffers near starvation...
...deepening the sense of speed. Below, Cattleman Virgil Torrance tightened his grip on a 12-gauge single-barreled shotgun. The doves' cries were tender and doleful: "Whee-eet, whee-eet, whee-eet." Torrance smiled: "When I hear that, it's all I can do to pull the trigger." And he proceeded to blaze away...