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...bossing a united Congo. . . He had failed, but as a Western diplomat put it, 'being the best demagogue around, he kept anybody else from running it either.' Taken from a military prison in Thysville, where in typical fashion he had almost fast-talked his guards into mutiny, Lumumba was flown to Elizabethville, hauled out and savagely beaten by Katangese soldiers, then driven off to jail, his hands bound behind his back with rope. Most Congo experts are convinced that the Katangese [secessionists], aware that Lumumba was gaining followers even while in prison, shot him the very next morning." --Time...
...Kiara and Keyara, Wecker flew to San Bernardino and arranged with the Allens to take the girls for what she described as a two-day holiday "to say goodbye." Instead, she took them 100 miles south to her hotel in San Diego, where she met the Kilshaws, who had flown in from Britain. Afterward, Johnson phoned the Allens and said Wecker no longer wanted them to parent her kids...
There are few places he hasn't visited. He has been seen lounging in rural Appalachia, and perched proudly on piers along eastern seaboard. He has hunted for grubs in the marshlands of Nova Scotia; he has cavorted with royal seagulls from afar; he has flown atop the Great Wall; he has been tete-a-tete with distinguished journalists at Washington Post's Beijing Bureau; and, most recently, he has been seen circling Tiananmen Square...
...TEXAS FAIR & MARKETPLACE Giant pandas? What giant pandas? Four Belgian horses, three longhorns, a roadrunner, a Brahman bull and assorted other critters will be flown in from the Fort Worth Zoo to form a Lone Star menagerie. Marriott Wardman Park Hotel...
...South Carolina primary, for instance, was the editor of Southern Partisan. At the time, Bush and McCain were dodging the question of whether South Carolina should keep flying the Confederate battle flag over the state capitol, because they didn't want to alienate white Southern voters. The flag had flown there since 1962, a states'-rights rebuff to desegregation and a daily affront to blacks. In an attempt at conciliation, it was moved to another flagpole on the capitol grounds last July...