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...this violence that Marcos imposed martial law. At that time he demanded that all citizens turn in their guns to the government. Many Moslems balked and called for creation of an independent Moslem state. They took to the hills, where they seemingly have an unlimited supply of ammunition, Belgian-made automatic rifles, light-and heavy-caliber machine guns and British-made hand grenades. So well armed are the rebels that they shot down two F-86 jets attempting to chase them from the hills...
...young British consul in Africa, Casement doggedly uncovered and exposed the plight of Congolese natives whom King Leopold of the Belgians had promised to deliver from slavery but instead through torture, amputation and the lash, forced into the production of rubber. As a result of Casement's crusade-obstructed at every step by the "abject pifflers" of the Foreign Office -the Congo Free State, a private monopoly, was pried from ruthless Leopold's personal grasp and placed under the more or less civilized control of the Belgian government...
...point exactly midway between the two sides in the street, U.N. observers had set up a table. "No one goes beyond this table except us," said a U.N. officer. Three Finnish soldiers wearing newly painted blue helmets and carrying Belgian FN rifles marched stiffly up and down. Overhead, an Israeli Mirage appeared and swiftly disappeared. Two Egyptian missiles fired and missed, leaving white puffs of smoke in the cloudless azure...
...Austria. Guests could view the most extensive collection of Czarist icons and jewelry outside the Soviet Union, the result of a Post buying spree in Moscow with her third husband, Ambassador Joseph E. Davies. At Hillwood, Mrs. Post's pet schnauzer slept in a bed once used by Belgian royalty...
...last March, when guerrillas who took over the Saudi Arabian embassy in the Sudan demanded freedom for Abu Daud. In retaliation, those terrorists killed one Belgian and two American diplomats who were being held as hostages...