Word: eleven
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SOME time in the night, the eleven men-eight Jews, two Moslems and a Christian-were secretly hanged in their prison in Baghdad. Then their bodies, clad in the red jail uniform of the doomed, were hauled by truck to downtown Liberation Square, where a set of wooden gallows had been hastily constructed to display them. Next morning Baghdadis awoke to martial music and the shrill cries of loudspeakers and radio, urging them to take the day off to view the executed "Israeli spies." For those who could not make the trip, the government ordered the medieval sight broadcast...
Assumption of Innocence. Iraq insisted that the hangings were purely an internal affair. According to Baghdad, the eleven executed men had been part of a ring that included another three-two Moslems and a Jew-who were hanged in the port city of Basra on the same day. The charge said that they had formed a spy-and-sabotage network reporting to Israel and the "U.S. consulate at Abadan" in Iran. There is no U.S. consulate or other U.S. Government office in Abadan. Baghdad identified the ringleader as Izra Zilkha, an elderly Jew who ran a one-room kitchenware shop...
...blancos, or white Bolivians, fluent in the Quechua Indian language. He is robust enough to dance all night with pretty girls, hearty enough to eat as many as four lunches a day of peasant rabbit stew and peppers accompanied by home made corn liquor. "I'm eleven pounds heavier than when I became President," Barrientos told TIME Correspondent Mo Garcia last week. "The only way the campesinos have of showing affection is to feed you. The only way to show appreciation is to eat the food...
Divorced. By Lee Remick, 33, whose brilliant blue eyes and dazzling smile have lighted movie screens since 1957 (Days of Wine and Roses, The Detective); Bill Colleran, fortyish, TV producerdirector; on uncontested grounds of incompatibility after eleven years of marriage; in November in Juarez, Mexico...
...only did the Thugs kill without remorse but "with pleasure," as they confessed, sanctified by omens before and prayers afterward. Thug son succeeded Thug father in the family business as a matter of course. But even after as many as eleven generations had accumulated fortunes, Thugs and scions of Thugs went on doing their thing. Shrewd appraisers of rich victims, they carefully scouted out their targets. But they had no objection to the impromptu murder of a party of four-for as little as 20 gold pieces and a handful of rupees. Whatever drove the Thugs-probably a mixture...