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Confession Session. Opposition to De Gaulle's proposals was intense among French politicians, who have become increasingly resentful of his autocratic ways.
Hailed in the press as Karl der Grosse and Charles I, Emperor of Europe, President de Gaulle last week capped his historic, hugely successful state visit to West Germany with a momentous confession. Speaking for once as a citizen rather than as the voice of France, Charles de Gaulle revealed...
The House of Commons was crammed to the doors last week as Harold Macmillan faced the grimmest hour of his political career. Grey-faced and hollow-cheeked, the Prime Minister sprawled on the government's green leather front bench while Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell called for a censure...
After his release, Crump bummed around for several years and went through several jobs. Then, at 23, he got into real trouble. On the morning of March 20, 1953, three hooded gunmen ambushed two payroll clerks and a guard in a corridor of Libby, McNeill & Libby's Chicago plant...
In Colombo last week, a Buddhist monk and herbalist named Talduwe Somarama mounted a prison scaffold and was hanged. Somarama's crime: the 1959 assassination of Ceylon's Prime Minister Solomon W. R. D. Bandaranaike. In a confession he later retracted, Somarama said he committed the deed because...