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...Premier Amini himself, who has none of these particular predilections, owns lands the size of Massachusetts, and it was presumed that these too will be redistributed. But nothing Amini did seemed to mollify the reactionaries and leftists who opposed him. Fortnight ago a military coup engineered by a Teheran garrison officer was averted only when the Shah, then still in Norway, personally telephoned the army chief of staff with orders to stop the plot. The officer who led the aborted coup was disgruntled because some of his friends had been caught in Amini's purge of the army...
...Classic Touch. With the rainy season ending, the tactical advantage shifts to the Portuguese troops, who can now take the offensive without bogging down in the mud. But some 5.000 white soldiers have arrived from Lisbon to beef up Angola's 2,000-man regular garrison. Roberto's forces are also grouping for a showdown. He claims that he is getting financial aid from Tunisia to fuel his revolt but denies that he is getting any help from Ghana (the Portuguese have admitted that they made a mistake in claiming the capture of 71 "Ghanaians"). "The Portuguese have...
Fighting sputtered on despite the ceasefire. American pilots stood their planes on their wingtips to swoop down and drop supplies to a garrison of Meo tribesmen under daily attack in the mountain village of Padong, only 20 miles from the Communist "capital" of Xiengkhouang. In one five-day period, 40 Russian planes delivered 80 tons of supplies to the Pathet...
...Lloyd McKim Garrison Prise and the Roger Conant Hatch Prizes for Lyric Poetry will not be awarded this year...
...local garrison of Congolese soldiers had no intention of letting one man wreck the talks-particularly the one with most of the money. As Tshombe and his aides drove up, a squad of angry, shouting troops with submachine guns hauled them from their limousines and pushed and cuffed them back to the airport terminal. Soon several of Kasavubu's cabinet ministers were on the scene, urging Katanga's boss to return to the talks. "If that's the way you run the Congo, good luck," retorted Tshombe. He sat down in an old wicker armchair and refused...