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...killing 18 guerrillas and arresting 140 suspects. A few weeks later, a Thai-Malay patrol moving in Land Rovers through a jungle gorge in southern Thailand's Betong district was ambushed, and ten of its 15 members killed. The attack shocked both Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur into action. Fortnight ago, Malaysian Home Minister Ismail bin Dato Abdul Rahman and Thailand's Deputy Defense Minister Dawee Chullasapaya sat down in Bangkok for a series of conferences to strengthen joint cooperation-which was encouraged by another clash in the south last week between a Thai police patrol and five armed...
...which she candidly detailed her impressions: Sir Joshua Reynolds was "niminy-piminy," while "Raphael had never looked at a horse." She was occasionally malicious: "Miss Ellen Terry's complexion is made of such an expensive enamel that she can only afford to wash her face once a fortnight." Prime Minister William Gladstone was "a vain old bird ... I never saw a person so creased . . . that old goose." The Journal breaks off, with Beatrix earnestly pursuing the classification and painting of fungi, three years before the publication of Peter Rabbit. Looking back in later years, she remembered him unsentimentally...
...Nicaragua, Lorenzo Guerrero, former Interior Minister and Vice President, succeeded automatically to the presidency fortnight ago after the fatal heart attack suffered by President René Schick, the quiet, courtly Managua professor who was the hand-picked candidate of Nicaragua's all-powerful Somoza family. Guerrero plans no changes in government policy, is expected only to keep the office until next February's elections, when Anastasio ("Tachito") Somoza intends...
...government is drifting, however, Ongania does not want to be reminded of the fact. Fortnight ago, he abruptly closed down a satirical magazine that had dared to poke fun at his walrus mustache. He was even angrier over the grumbling at the University of Buenos Aires, long a hotbed of Communist and far-left activity. Fearing mass student unrest, he accused all nine state universities of "subversive action," wiped out their traditional autonomy, and put them under the control of the national Ministry of Education. That night, police moved onto university campuses, throwing tear gas and swinging clubs and rifle...
...Fortnight ago France's Pineau finally came forward and confirmed that "definite arrangements" were made at the meeting. "A treaty like the Anglo-French-Israeli treaty," he said on a BBC interview in London, "was necessarily secret, because the circumstances were very difficult." Pineau felt the time for secrecy was past. "I should think that after ten years," he noted, "it would be possible to say more. If my English friends after this period agree to voice all the truths about this question, I should agree." If any of Pineau's English friends were to speak...