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...daub their chests with red paint to spell out the letters U.S.A. Then, equipped with bamboo poles to symbolize rifles, they march down to the shores of the Pacific to await the arrival of John Frum. This godlike figure, whose origin is shrouded in mystery, is a legendary black cousin of Franklin D. Roosevelt. He is expected to reappear from the surf some day with all the Jeeps and chewing gum and other marvels that G.I.s brought to the New Hebrides during World War II. John Frum never comes, but the people of Tanna take his continued absence in good...
...Winegate" affair by French papers. Protesting his innocence, Cruse shot back in righteous anger: "You'll see, I'll be the Nixon of Bordeaux." That prediction turned out to be more accurate than he could have possibly wished. Last week, in a criminal court, Cruse, his cousin Yvan, a freewheeling wine broker named Pierre Bert and 15 lesser merchants were on trial, charged with falsifying labels, tampering with official documents, and trying to sell doctored wine...
...Nguyen Vinh Nghi, of IV Corps (the Mekong Delta), who has long been suspected of pocketing the salaries of some 36,000 "phantom troops"-men who are on the payroll but nowhere else in the military. Thieu also cashiered 377 corrupt officers and dismissed four Cabinet ministers, including his cousin and confidant, Information Minister Hoang Due Nha, 32, who was responsible for censoring (and often confiscating) Saigon's Vietnamese-language newspapers...
...admit, however, that he had erred in telling the court that he had never been on Chappaquiddick before the day of the accident, and that he had fixed the time of his return to the cottage after the accident by the dashboard clock of a Valiant driven by his cousin and sometime factotum, Joseph Gargan...
...anti-corruption campaign that began quietly over a year ago. Thieu continues to send his tanks and police in to break up demonstrations against his regime, but he has also made several concessions to the Catholic leaders, who had previously supported him. He has fired the information minister, his cousin Hoang Duc Nha, and dismissed at least 375 army officers for suspected corruption...