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RECORD TO DATE: Eighteen right, three wrong, two ties...
...naive to soft-pedal the population explosion as "more myth than menace." "A modest growth of 18% per decade, one-half what it was 100 years ago," is not so benign. Eighteen percent of present population is 34.7 million; 36% of 1865 population is only 12.6 million...
That was a letdown, but Massamba-Debat had other cheery news for his armed fanatics. Eighteen commandos had been taken prisoner, he announced, and their fate would be placed in the hands of the people. "If the people say we should burn them alive, then we shall burn them alive. If the people say they should be buried alive, then we will bury them alive. And if the people say hang them, then we will hang them...
...Eighteen years after the British had destroyed the Zulu nation, they crushed Benin. Objecting to the sale of slaves and human sacrifice, a consul general set out in 1897 with eight men to halt the annual ritual of slaughter; they were massacred. In retaliation, a battalion of British soldiers, 1,200 strong, destroyed Benin a month later and brought out as booty 1,000 bronze plaques, which were sold off in London to benefit dis abled veterans. It was the first major appearance of Africana in Europe...
Buchanan, after a sizzling start on the second eighteen, when he hit the first 10 greens in regulation and went one under par--faltered with a bogey on 1.7 and a double bogey on 18, missing a chance to take sole possession of the title...