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...medical attention. When the next child, a girl named Untamed, contracted pneumonia, Wife Sonia begged again. "Here is your doctor," shouted Rafael, waving a .38 revolver in a gesture that marked the beginning of the long imprisonment. The baby Untamed (now 17) survived, as have Free, 15; Sovereign, 14; Conqueror, 12; Good Life, 10; and Evolution of Liberal Thought, who was born just eight weeks...
...desperate note to "Mr. Judge" was scrawled by Untamed, who knew no other word for the law. Last week, riding in a police car, the children clutched one another in terror-though Conqueror soon asked the cop for a turn at the wheel. At a movie, Free could not believe his eyes; Untamed burst into tears when she saw children at play in a park. While a sympathetic public offered jobs ranging from housemaid to factory hand to Sonia and the government promised to care for her children, the father-jailer was locked up in a cell. The charges: kidnaping...
...empire. Choosing a moment when Rome's legions were preoccupied in Africa and in Gaul, Mithradates built a fleet, gathered an army, and in ten years swept from the northern shore of the Black Sea to the Mediterranean and the fringe of ancient Greece. Naturally enough, the conqueror was indignant when his wife-and-sister, the queen, tried to poison him. Mithradates, who had foresightedly taken small daily doses of poison to build up an immunity, executed her without delay and, for the remainder of his long life, stuck conscientiously to concubines...
...Chinese Communist government notified New Zealand Mountaineer Sir Edmund Hillary, conqueror of Mount Everest, that owing to unexplained "inadequate conditions,'' he would not be allowed back in Tibet for another go at the great peak...
...aware of the outside world. Since then, though Radio Peking has on occasion quoted the Dalai Lama in dutiful denunciation of the American imperialists, he has in fact shown a captive's ability subtly to defy authority. The old saying is still true: "To hold Tibet firmly, the conqueror must win the Potala's top floor...