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...arms of Communist power in Iraq, none is more effective than the People's Court, which the Reds have virtually converted into an independent arm of government through which they focus pressure on Kassem. Presided over by Kassem's cousin, Colonel Fadhil Abbas Mahdawi, a willing tool of the Communists, the court stages televised nightly trials of "enemies of the regime," i.e., enemies of the Communist Party. Mahdawi is a suety, quick-witted ruffian-"Egypt has always had bad rulers. Cleopatra was a whore"-who holds court to extract confessions rather than dispense justice. Making...
Born. To Jerry Lee Lewis, 23, rock-'n'-oll singer whose tour of Great Britain TIME, June 9) was cut short by public outrage ("Go home, baby snatcher! Go wheel your wife in a pram!"), and Myra .ewis, 14, his cousin and third wife: a ion, their first child; in Ferriday...
...latest novel (his first to be published in the U.S. was The Game and The Ground-TIME, May 6, 1957). Orders of Chivalry is witty, satirical, and one of the toughest, most trenchant novels to come out of Britain in recent years. Author Vansittart (38-year-old distant cousin of Britain's late Diplomat Lord Robert Vansittart) shows a boldly romantic streak in admiration for such old-fashioned virtues as duty, discipline, honor and obedience...
...this uneasy situation, guests began arriving in Kobeyat for the wedding of a local maiden and her Syrian fiancé. The bridegroom's two brothers-a Maronite monk named Father Genadrios Mourani. 32, and Seminarian Jean Mourani. 23-arrived in nearby Tripoli with their cousin. Father Georges Mourani. 34. Hiring a taxi, the three Syrians set out in the rainswept dusk for Kobeyat, passing through a spectral countryside of deserted, barren hills. As they rounded a curve on the approach to the village, the night crackled with gunfire. Father Genadrios was killed in the first fusillade. The cabby stopped...
Calling to their assailants for mercy, Father Georges and his cousin edged up the slope, where four Moslems kept them covered with their guns, then marched them off in the direction of Jaafra. On the way, the two captives were robbed of their money by one of the assassins, and of their wristwatches by another. When a third searched them and found nothing. he said: "Did the others take your money and watches? That's all right then...