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...Beirut (pop. 500,000), capital of Lebanon, newspapers flock thick as thieves. Beirut's press platoon of more than 40 papers ekes out a precarious and intensely seasonal life. The largest of the papers has fewer than 20,000 subscribers. Between elections, all but a few shrink to two-page flyers, printed twice a week in obedience to a law that revokes the franchise of any newspaper less regular. But come election time, Beirut's papers turn daily and take on weight. Last week, on the eve of Lebanese national elections, Al Beiraq (The Banner), one of Beirut...
Despite the gravity of the charges, Powell's flock remained true. A dozen Negro ministers, dressed in clerical garb, were among the 150 Harlem supporters who hovered outside the packed courtroom. Some prayed in the hallways. They had reason: if convicted, Congressman Powell could draw a $10,000 fine and five years in prison on each of three counts...
...venture must Indians hold majority stock control. No longer are such fields as petroleum and synthetic rubber to be dominated by the "public sector," i.e., state-owned. American investors have been guaranteed dollar compensation if the Indian government should decide to expropriate a business. A new flock of tax incentives has been introduced, including a virtual tax holiday on profits during the first five years...
...Ireland, a big Alitalia airliner took off from Shannon Airport, outbound for New York, reached an altitude of 300 feet, then unaccountably veered off to the left and crashed. The fuselage of the big Italian DC-7 ripped through a country churchyard and a flock of sheep, leaving a mile-long trail of bodies, tombstones and burning debris. Said the Rev. Thomas Comerford, pastor of the church: "People were screaming, sheep were crying, and dogs were barking. It was like a scene from hell." Of 52 aboard, 30 were killed, and many of the 22 survivors were critically burned...
Elected to the Hungarian Parliament in 1939 as a member of the liberal Smallholders Party, Father Varga, immune by reason of his parliamentary position from political arrest in pre-Hitlerite Hungary, had bolstered the spirits of his refugee flock and outraged local Nazis by flying the French Tricolor from his church spire. In 1944 Hungary fell to the Nazis. Condemned to death by the Hitler regime, Bela Varga hid in a church cellar, was sometimes sheltered by his lifelong friend, Josef Cardinal Mindszenty. Soviet "liberation"' saw his death sentence reaffirmed by the NKVD; but he was released after...