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...final polishing at Moscow's Voroshilov Military Academy. The son of a mullah, Shehu is the only satellite leader who speaks English, which he learned during childhood studies at Tirana's American Vocational School. Despite his soft speech and crisp good grooming, Shehu is known as the "Butcher of Albania" for his bloody suppression of anti-Communists as boss of Albania's secret police; at a 1950 meeting of the Albanian Cabinet, he reportedly shot an argumentative colleague dead over the conference table. His chief political stock in trade is his implacable hatred of Yugoslavia. Since Moscow...
...television season has formally weighed in, and so far, in the main, it seems like a ton of feathers trying to crowd together on a butcher's scale. But among this week's and last week's starters, there also are some solid spots...
...better to tear down No. 10 entirely and build something new. No. 10 is far too small for the offices and consultation rooms the modern Prime Minister requires; it has only one accessible door (the back door leads to the garden), and statesmen often have to brush by the butcher's boy delivering the day's meat. But, being British, no one considered it; No. 10 will be rebuilt...
Cuban Foreign Minister Raul Roa, speaking before the United Nations Security Council, labeled the U.S. a "butcher'' and asked for U.N. action to head off what he said was a theoretical Yankee invasion. Soviet Delegate Arkady A. Sobolev chimed in to renew Premier Khrushchev's claim to be Cuba's protector...
...world buzzed with excited questions. How had the most notorious of all Jew-exterminators, a man thought dead these 15 years, fallen into Jewish hands? Had he been living contemptuously close to Israel in one of the neighboring and hostile Arab states? Was he really Eichmann, the butcher? The Israeli government, obviously fearful of international embarrassment, clamped down a curtain of total secrecy, refused to release any pictures of Eichmann or the smallest detail of how he had been caught...