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...with the real power is Major General Salah Jadid, 40, a career officer who was sacked from his chief-of-staff job by former Chief of State Amin Hafez late in 1965, then led the Feb. 23, 1966 coup that threw Hafez into Damascus' dank Mazza Prison...
...Marshal Tito has known few with the prickly persistence of Milovan Djilas, his onetime Vice President, close friend and confidant. Djilas has been sniping at Communist repression since the early 1950s, and for his efforts he has spent 81 of the last ten years in Yugoslavia's dank Sremska Mitrovica prison, where he wrote the major part of two blistering books, The New Class and Conversations with Stalin, which caused something of a sensation when they were published in the West. Last week Tito granted Djilas a pardon, and the writer was free once again. For how long...
...punishment in Moscow. Found guilty of trading off $36,850 in American military scrip, Paul Lee Bennett, 36, and Merle Verne Brown, 28, both of whom had been civilian employees of a construction company, were together fined $36,850 and sentenced to five years apiece in Saigon's dank Chi Hoa prison. Three other Americans are already serving time in Chi Hoa for similar offenses, and a fourth is due to go on trial next week...
...dank day in February 1963, a pretty young mother of two children was found in a London flat with her head in the oven and the gas jets wide open. The dead woman was Sylvia Plath, 30, an American poet whose marriage to Ted Hughes, a British poet, had gone on the rocks not long before. Her published verses, appearing occasionally in American magazines and gathered in a single volume, The Colossus, had displayed accents of refinement, but had not yet achieved authority of tone...
...still in doubt. Physically, the Viet Cong still occupied between 70% and 90% of the entire country, though much of it was barely habitable-dank mangrove swamps in the Mekong Delta, spiny ridges in the highlands, dense rain forests above Saigon...