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...Strongman Sallal in his San'a home, sitting shoeless on a mattress, surrounded by fellow officers, adding an occasional cigarette butt to the litter of orange peels on the mosaic floor. Sallal offered a justification of his coup, which turned mostly on reminiscences of the incredibly corrupt and backward rule imposed on Yemen by the gross, 300-lb. Ahmad the Devil...
Because of one serious error, your article is an ugly distortion of a common effort on our part, and represents a step backward for General Education A. Frederic A. Pennington, Teaching Fellow In General Education...
Because of one serious error, your article is an ugly distortion of a common effort on our part, and represents a step backward for General Education A. Frederic A. Pennington, Teaching Fellow In General Education...
...solidly professional, fact-filled speech: "Europe is incomplete without Britain, and we in Britain are incomplete without Europe." Savagely, Deputy Prime Minister Rab Butler tore into the Labor Party's antiMarket position, called Hugh Gaitskell's antiMarket address at the recent Labor Party conference "a passionately backward-looking speech." The Socialists. Butler said, "have decided to look backward. For them, 1,000 years of history books; for us, the future." Foreign Secretary Lord Home eloquently tied economics to world politics: "With every restrictive practice that is abolished, with every order that is gained because prices are competitive, with...
Communist Party officials were scared. From the steps of party headquarters they begged the crowd to disperse, promised to look into their grievances. For a moment the mass of youths moved backward, then surged forward again. Nervous police fired over the heads of the crowd, inadvertently killed some young Russians perched in the dark on trees and utility poles. As their bodies fell to the ground, the rioters exploded with rage. Party headquarters was sacked; officials were beaten to the floor as they frantically telephoned for reinforcements. Fresh militia and secret police units raced to the scene, opened up with...