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...week's end (and TIME's deadline) neared, communications became-next to bullet dodging-the major problem. Cable traffic was out, telephone service spotty. Duncan finally managed to get the copy out, mostly by courier to San Juan, thence by Teletype and telephone to New York. On Saturday, Caribbean Bureau Chief Edwin Reingold flew to Santo Domingo aboard a Navy supply plane, got his own view of the situation, picked up the final takes of the Duncan-Diederich files, and made it back to San Juan on the last plane...
...fourth and final departure from the island he discovered in 1492. Columbus named it La Isla Española because it reminded him of Spain. For the Spaniards and French who followed him, for the Indians they slaughtered, for the Negro slaves they imported, and for anyone within a bullet's range last week, Hispaniola was more like hell on earth than the warm, jasmine-scented paradise it might be. Last week marked the third time in 50 years that U.S. troops have been forced to intervene in the affairs of the forlorn, hate-filled little Caribbean island...
Since his arrival in Viet Nam last October, Keys has logged enough air mileage to circle the earth nearly two times. His plane has been hit five times by enemy fire, and he got a Purple Heart when glass from a bullet-blasted windshield cut his face...
Assassination is endemic to Iran. In recent years, two Premiers have been murdered as well as a court minister. The Shah dodged bullets in 1949 when a man disguised as a cameraman opened up with a pistol: one bullet grazed the royal lip, another pierced his military cap, the third ripped off an epaulet...
...Christian Scientists in Philadelphia. As a nurse rushed into the room, Miss Butts fled and drove away in her car. Six hours later, the car was found parked outside the police station in Bethesda, Md., a Washington suburb. Miss Butts was crumpled over the wheel, dead of a bullet through her head. Beside her body was a note: "Today I killed my best friend, Mary Happer. I had to let her find relief from the cancer pain that was killing her so cruelly...