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...army. Roads to India's West Bengal State were carved through mountains and jungles, and in 1968 the first airstrip was laid down, a step that immediately cut travel time from West Bengal to Bhutan from five dangerous and uncomfortable days to 30 minutes. The late King also freed some 5,000 slaves in 1956 and built schools and hospitals for his people...
...last fall while fighting on the Syrian front. The Syrians had 65 Israeli soldiers and airmen, and three Druze civilians. Carefully obeying terms of the agreement, each side first released wounded prisoners ?12 Israelis, 25 Syrians and one Moroccan?for repatriation; after that, the able were to be freed. Last to be returned, within ten days after the signing, were bodies of the military dead...
...demonstrates how the flowering of art and architecture was a natural out growth of expanding knowledge in mathematics and the rules of perspective. Bronowski also corrects the popular notion that the Industrial Revolution simply forced man to give up rural pleasures for urban horrors. This revolution, he points out, freed man from age-old social strictures, creating a new aristocracy of talent...
Died. Allal el Fassi, 65, Moroccan nationalist leader; of a heart attack; in Bucharest, Rumania. As founder and president of the Istiqlal (Independence) Party, Fassi led the movement that in 1956 freed Morocco from French rule. He urged the annexation of Mauritania and other adjacent lands into a greater Moroccan empire and long served as a respected conservative voice in his country's politics...
...Palestinian terrorists seized the youths, who were on a tour, as they slept in sleeping bags shortly before dawn and threatened to blow them up unless the Israeli government freed 20 terrorists...