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...Communists retreated behind the Imjin, R.O.K. units gained several miles, and at week's end stood on high ground overlooking the river. U.N. patrols entered Munsan, after routing some 6,000 Reds who had held up the advance for a week. Chunchon (given up by the enemy last fortnight) and Uijongbu remained in no man's land, although dominated most of the time by allied reconnaissance forces...
...that point, President Tubman's political machine started whirring angrily, softened up opposition politicos as efficiently as President Tubman's other gadget tenderizes a tenderloin. By the time Liberia's 200,000 voters trooped to the polls last fortnight, the contest had been settled privately. Twe and all other opposition candidates had withdrawn their names from the ballot. Tubman was in for another four years...
...March, Arias made a reckless grab for control of the independent Panama Trust Co. (TIME, March 19). The grab failed, but the bank was wrecked and had to close its doors. A fortnight ago, Ar-nulfo's opponents struck back by working up a run on the Government Savings Bank. This dose of his own medicine got Arnulfo mad. He suddenly moved to revoke the 1946 constitution and reinstate his own 1941 constitution, which gave the President broader powers and a longer term of office (six years instead of four...
...world. "I have dedicated myself fanatically to Perón and to Perón's ideals," she says. "Without fanaticism one cannot accomplish anything." In public speeches she has coupled her husband's name with the name of Napoleon and Alexander the Great. Last fortnight, while he stood beaming at her side, she compared him, not unfavorably, with Jesus Christ...
...months, Communist authorities kept the bishop under house arrest, unable to communicate with the priests in his charge. Then, last fortnight, apparently convinced that he would not apply for permission to leave, the Communists organized a mass meeting at which his "punishment" could be "popularly and unanimously demanded." The next day, soldiers marched the bishop through the streets before taking him off-presumably to Canton-to await trial. The usual mob of students was on hand with the usual mob clichés: "Down with Bishop Ford! Down with American imperialism...