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...dawn hours one morning in November, three crack paratroop battalions moved out of their barracks in trucks, surrounded the presidential palace and opened fire on the surprised guards. The rebels had no intention of removing Diem, wanted only his promise to dismiss his cabinet, form a provisional military government, guarantee freedom of the press and step up the fight against the Communists. Diem agreed to all this as he dickered by telephone with the rebel leaders outside. But when loyal army units arrived to break the siege. Diem blandly watered down his promised reforms, sniffing, "It was nothing . . . a handful...
...than dead." Inevitably too, anti-German prejudice persists. In Swansea fortnight ago, 300 marchers demonstrated against the NATO plan to train West German Panzer units in Wales this fall. The real point-that the defense of Berlin is ultimately the defense of Britain-is only now beginning to dawn on the mass of Britons enjoying the summer...
...begins in the fall of 1959, with the secret strategy meetings of all the aspirants and their campaign cadres (Adlai Stevenson, an exception, brooded alone in his Libertyville library), and it continues to the relentless long count of election night, when half the nation stayed mesmerized by television until dawn...
Just before dawn, a weapons carrier bounced over scrub-spotted sand dunes to a secret site near the Mediterranean. Out stepped Israel's Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion and Foreign Minister Golda Meir. Near the water's edge, a slim rocket loomed 40 ft. up into the night...
...time they broke camp at dawn next day and headed for the city, they knew why a man returns again and again to the wilderness: to become aware once more, to regain his natural animal tension; to see the cardinal slash through a sea of green leaves like a streak of new blood; to know again that water has taste as well as temperature, to drink sloppily and desperately because his mouth is dry and his tongue too big for his mouth; to eat the fat trout quickly cooked after the catching; to backpack his gear through glades and trails...