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...others deposed were Niger's President Hamani Diori, Ethiopia's Emperor Haile Selassie. Madagascar's head of state Gabriel Ramanantsoa and Chad's President Ngarta Tombalbaye...
...narrative proceeds with the leaping congruity of dreams. Gabriel Syme, a detective, is under orders to infiltrate a conspiracy to destroy society. He penetrates the Central Anarchist Council to find six other members, identified only as days of the week. Syme assumes the remaining role of Thursday. After a series of painful pursuits and duels, he learns the identity of five colleagues: they are all Scotland Yard detectives in disguise. And Sunday? It is his identity that provides the book's philosophical richness and tension...
...some weapons of its own design: the Uzi submachine gun (more than 300,000 have been sold to 50 foreign customers, including the U.S. Secret Service, in the past two decades), the Arava, a short-takeoff and -landing warplane that is being bought by Mexico and Nicaragua and the Gabriel ship-to-ship missile, whose performance in the October War against Egypt's Russian-made patrol boats impressed the U.S. Navy...
...Hercules transport (230), F-5 fighter-bomber (1,500), A-4 Skyhawk attack fighter (460) and TOW anti-tank missile (12,500); France's Exocet antiship missile (about 800 sold), AMX-30 battle tank (1,000) and Mirage III fighter-bomber (700); Israel's Gabriel antiship missile...
Died. Richard Ratsimandrava, 43, head of state, for less than one week, of the Malagasy Republic (formerly the French colony of Madagascar); following a machine-gun ambush of his official limousine; in Tananarive. Lieut. Colonel Ratsimandrava served as Interior Minister under General Gabriel Ramanantsoa, leader of the military junta that took control of the republic in May 1972. After months of unrest among dissident tribesmen, Ramanantsoa resigned on Feb. 5 and the honest, plodding Ratsimandrava took office. His death was announced by a new ruling military committee. It claimed that the short-termed President had been slain by members...