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...Volunteers. Months ago, acting at Bobby's behest, Donovan negotiated the $53 million payoff to Castro. But before the exchange could be consummated, the October Cuba crisis erupted. Only after it had ebbed did Donovan make tentative inquiries about whether Castro was still interested...
...General Abdul Haris Nasution, 43, whose popularity among the military enables him to hold the highly independent army in check-and to change sides nimbly. Nasution was sacked as chief of staff in 1952 for backing an attempted military coup, was restored to office three years later at the behest of the liberal Cabinet, which wanted a strong leader to control the volatile army. Nasution repaid his backers by clapping them into jail at the first opportunity. In 1958, during another revolt, he firmly sided with Sukarno and got emergency powers, which he used to ban freedom of speech...
...outbreak, Munoz Grandes was arrested by the Republicans and sentenced to death, but was released in a routine exchange of prisoners. He quickly joined Franco, was soon commanding a corps on the Pyrenees front. At the end of the war, Munoz Grandes, at Franco's behest, became secretary-general of the Fascist Falange, specifically to integrate the freewheeling Falangist militia into the Spanish army...
...mentioned a temple of Artemis that flourished at Vravron. Aristophanes hinted at strange orgies. The rest was a tantalizing mixture of myths and the real civilization of the time. Euripides, in plays, described how Artemis rescued Iphigenia from being sacrificed by her father Agamemnon, and how later, at the behest of Athena, Iphigenia became Artemis' priestess at Vravron. She dwelt near some "holy stairs." and when she died, her grave was adorned "with braided gowns of softest weave" left to the shrine "by women dead with child...
...invoke the provisions of the First Amendment on behalf of college editors is to miss the point. A newspaper operates on campus at the behest of administrative officials, just as do social clubs and political groups. Its rights and privileges are defined and limited by presidents, boards of regents, trustees and overseers--whoever makes and administers educational policy...