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Within hours, motorized columns carrying 16,000 regular troops were rolling northward along three roads toward Algiers. Then they ran into roadblocks set up by defiant troops of Wilaya 4, the military district that includes Algiers and the surrounding region. As their trucks squealed to a halt, Ben Bella's troops embraced their foes at the barricades and sat down to drink coffee together. "Dear brother," one of Ben Bella's officers would say, "we have orders from the Politburo to advance on Algiers." A wilaya commander would reply: "Dear brother, we are sorry but we have orders...
...Maine, Kennedy could not forget that the 87th has already made a shambles of his program. Astute politician that he is, he knew that the question whether there would be a tax cut was not in his power of decision. That power rested with the stalemated, defiant Congress. And in that Congress it is actually the veteran Democratic leaders who have been most effective in their opposition to the New Frontier's proposals...
Special Branch (political) police searched for him everywhere, regularly swooped on his dowdy little home in Orlando township, searched bus stations and railway terminals. But towering (6 ft. 2 in., 245 Ibs.), affable Nelson Mandela sped from one hideout to another. Often he telephoned newspapers with defiant statements against the government; once he even gave a television interview to the BBC. Last February he traveled to a Pan-African congress in Addis Ababa and returned unnoticed...
Moscow was furious, the Finns were defiant, and the festival had all the makings of a serious international incident. Clearly it was up to nimble neutralist President Kekkonen (who has two cars in his garage, a Cadillac and a ZIS) to say he was sorry about the whole thing. Sternly he denounced the "irresponsible behavior of youth circles in the capital." Irresponsible or not, Finnish youth had revealed the ingrained anti-Russian bitterness that lies beneath the veneer of Finnish neutrality. It is a vivid memory that many of the delegates will be taking home with them when the festival...
Counting Socks. Separated from its only friend in the world, Red China, by 3,000 miles, Albania lives in an isolation both defiant and pathetic. More than 70% of its 1,700,000 people scratch a living from the collectivized soil; most of Albania's farm villages and mountain towns have changed little in the last century. Garbage flows through an open gutter cut in the middle of narrow streets; hawk-nosed men sip Turkish coffee in dim cafés while their women shoulder heavy loads of wood and barrels of scarce water. Along with the traditional poverty...