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...July 20, when French planes blasted Bizerte for hours, 2) two days later when French paratroopers rained grenades and mortar shells on the close-packed houses of the casbah. In. Bizerte, the myth of the poor quality of the Tunisian fighting men finally died. Dirty and stubble-chinned, they clung to their positions. Four Tunisians held up an entire French company for four hours, killing five paratroopers and wounding 15, and battled on even after two medium tanks had blown to smithereens the houses in which they were sheltered. With howitzers, tanks and planes on one side, and rifles...
...years the old (seventyish) Imam of Yemen has been as absolute a ruler as history records. In his feudal desert country, it took the Imam's personal signature to get a gasoline permit, authorize a $15 printing job, or order light bulbs for the palace. He clung to every trifle of power...
...smell of money clung especially to the person of handsome Senator Gil Puyat, 53, whose family fortune is estimated at $17 million, and who deals in mines, lumber, furniture and oil. Puyat's campaign manager assured the popeyed delegates-many of whom were provincials on their first visit to the capital-that the Senator will devote three years' income, or $4,500,000, to election expenses if he is nominated for Vice President. In the hotel lobbies, smiling Puyat leaders reportedly passed out 100-peso bills ($50). Happy delegates carousing at the lavish Bayside nightclub had their checks...
...years ago, Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon West Ridgeway Dias Bandaranaike bowed respectfully before a Buddhist monk among the crowd of petitioners gathered on his veranda, in return got a blast of four bullets in his body. He clung to life long enough to utter a last request. "I appeal to all concerned to show compassion to this man and not to try and wreak vengeance on him," he said, and died...
...nearly everyone but Red Boss Enver Hoxha, who has desperately clung to power for 20 years, life in tiny Albania can be brutish, nasty and short. Fourteen concentration camps and a dozen jails are jammed with an estimated 30,000 prisoners-nearly 2% of the total population. The secret police favor such refinements as thumbscrews and electric cages, in which the current is gradually built up in walls and floor while the victim dances in agony...