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Cracked Cricoid. Fortnight ago, dug up from Arlington National Cemetery, the colonel's corpse was also autopsied, with equally startling results: the cricoid cartilage, a ring around the larynx below the Adam's apple, had been cracked in two places. The doctors' conclusion: "strangulation...
Three thousand Philippine army and constabulary troopers, led by sniffing German shepherds, last week stalked the rugged forest of central Luzon. They were searching for a band of killers who fortnight ago gunned down a village mayor and his five companions in a roadside ambush. The deaths brought to more than 60 the number of mayors, village officials and ordinary law-abiding citizens who in recent months have died by the terrorist's bullet. The statistic underscores the problem that has risen to plague the seven-month-old regime of President Ferdinand Marcos: the resurgence of the Hukbong Magpapalaya...
From the moment De Gaulle arrived, everything pointed to success for the visitor from Paris. What with his defeat at the North Rhine-Westphalia polls fortnight ago and the constant badgering of the "Gaullist" wing of his party, Erhard presumably felt it was no time to give his enemies grounds for charging him with gumming up relations with France. In any case, he gave De Gaulle a reception that was far beyond what protocol requires for an ordinary working visit. Honor guards and anthems were in profusion, and Erhard's luncheon toast was especially cordial...
...There were one or two stern provisions in it, however, the foremost of which was that the government could confiscate anything it does not like and prosecute the author. And although the regime had not felt the need to use its powers against the generally tame daily press before, fortnight ago it banned a book edited by José Maria Gil Robles, a Catholic politician, which said that Franco should be followed by a liberal regime, preferably a monarchy...
...matches began fortnight ago with 16 national teams in the running. By late last week, the only teams with a hope of victory were Britain, Portugal, the Soviet Union and West Germany. To the despair of their supporters, the others had fallen to noisy defeat. The loudest wails came from Brazil, whose team had won the cup in 1958 and 1962. A loss to Portugal became a nationwide calamity. From office buildings in Rio and São Paulo, clouds of black carbon paper and typewriter ribbon cascaded onto the streets below; flags were lowered to half-mast, and people...