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...spaceship" told the world more about Russia than Nikita had bargained on. In fact, his satellite was no more a spaceship than the previous Soviet satellite had been "an automatic interplanetary station." By the Russians' own admission, when the time came for the spaceship to descend, it would "burn up in the denser layers of the atmosphere" -a journey's end scarcely calculated to appeal to live astronauts...
...lives, including civilians. But 6,700 Reds had been killed, 2,675 more captured or forced to surrender. Special tactics had been devised to cope with an enemy that struck and then melted into the jungle. Each time a guerrilla was slain or surrendered, a guerrilla band would descend on an outlying village, coerce some hapless peasant into joining as a replacement. To combat this tactic, the government resettled more than 500,000 villagers, mostly Chinese, in larger communities for mutual protection. By promising independence in 1957, Britain deprived the rebels of their best talking point. Under able Prime Minister...
...many as 1,000 students from across the nation will eventually descend on Science Island each summer. Founder Lukens is even dreaming of a similar setup on the West Coast. Last week's most eager applicant: Jeffrey Lukens...
...years the Africans hated and endured the system. Then a new and more militant organization called the Pan-African Congress decided to exploit the passbook grievance. It urged Africans all over the Union to descend last week upon local police stations-without their passbooks, without arms, without violence-and demand to be arrested. In a few spots, the turnout was impressive. At Orlando township in the outskirts of Johannesburg, 20,000 Africans milled around the police station, led by Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, 36, a Methodist-reared university instructor, who heads the Pan-African Congress. Fifteen miles to the south...
Gangs of agitators 70-and 80-strong descend on villages, plaster handbills on walls, harangue the people over loudspeakers, and turn every threat and promise on each individual farmer to join "the beautiful socialist society." Some farmers have committed suicide rather than submit. Many have slaughtered their livestock. The Erfurt Communist newspaper, Das Volk, recently reported 380 barn burnings in its district. And the most desperate have wrenched themselves away from their ancestral holdings and fled west, joining a refugee stream of about 400 a day. Said one farmer who fled last week to West Berlin with his family, after...