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Citizens of the quiet, sand-swept Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott (pop. 103,500) were trudging to their jobs early one morning last week when a brusque military order was broadcast: Go home. A political storm had blown up in the hot Sahara wind. Shortly afterward, as army Land Rovers equipped with machine guns appeared on street corners, the nature of the tempest became clear. Officers of the 15,000-man Mauritanian army, led by Lieut. Colonel Mustapha Ould Mohammed Salek, 42, had overthrown the regime of President Moktar Ould Daddah, 53, the mild-mannered strongman who had ruled the poverty...
...Soon afterward, that convent was invaded by the chaos of Nazi occupation. The hero of the French underground says little of his hazardous wartime activities. After the fall of France, he takes time for a note of Proustian sensuality: "Every year, the young girls come into flower on the beaches. They have only one season. The following year, they are replaced by other flower-like faces which, the previous season, still belonged to little girls. For the man who looks at them, they are yearly waves whose weight and splendor break into foam over the yellow sand." The minutes stolen...
...response to Donahue's yelp, the ticker, having stuttered along for several minutes with other results, announced: "With the last precincts of Cook County now in, Senator Kennedy has won a lead of 8,000 votes to carry Illinois's 27 electoral votes." Kennedy, I learned afterward, had been assured of the result several hours before. Later that evening, Kennedy told Benjamin Bradlee of an early call from Daley, when all seemed in doubt. "With a little bit of luck and the help of a few close friends," Daley had assured Kennedy before the A.P. had pushed...
When Muldoon learned what his students were up to, he exclaimed, "My God, we've got another Watergate!" and promptly declared himself dictator. All but five of his 27 students had participated in the corruption. When asked afterward what they liked about the project, the students cited money dealing, counterfeiting and blackmail...
Late last week, the President and CIA Director Stansfield Turner began briefing congressional leaders on the Administration's evidence. The four who attended the first such meeting seemed to come away convinced. Arizona's Republican Congressman John Rhodes said afterward that the information indicated the Cubans had been working with the Katangese "up to and through the day of the invasion." Said Senator Howard Baker, Tennessee Republican: "I think the Congress will be satisfied ... I don't think there is any doubt that the President has good, hard information ... and I think the Cubans are lying...