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...association. His most celebrated case: the defense of Army Colonel Ramón Barquín, accused in 1956 of plotting against Batista. Barquín got six years on the Isle of Pines, but Miró's defense was so brilliant that he earned Batista's cordial hatred...
...Widen had no need to fear on that December day in 1942. The Nazi pilot did not harm him, instead set down his 109 and went over to meet Widen, who had landed near the airfield. The Nazi was a cordial fellow named Anton ("Toni") Hafner, fated to become Germany's ninth-ranking World War II ace with 204 planes to his credit. The two spoke through an interpreter for a few minutes in the glaring Tunisian sun. They shook hands, posed for pictures. When Hafner admired Widen's wings, the American gave them...
...which the U.S. has diplomatic relations except for the Soviets, and that was only because his Russian counterpart. Valerian Zorin, had stood him up last month when Patrice Lumumba's death was announced. Last week Zorin finally kept the date, and the atmosphere was reportedly ''very cordial...
...seven chances in ten for something positive," said Tunisia's President Habib Bourguiba in 1959, "I don't much like going to Paris." But last week the odds in favor of ending the Algerian war finally seemed to have shifted in Bourguiba's eyes: receiving a cordial invitation from President Charles de Gaulle to come to Paris "at his own convenience," he promptly accepted...
Lest any comrade be misled by his cordial message congratulating new U.S. President Kennedy on his inauguration, Khrushchev added a plain statement: "The No. 1 enemy of the peoples of the world," said Nikita...