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...location near the Malacca Strait has long enabled Britain to police Far Eastern sea-lanes. (Singapore has neither the ships nor the money to use the base itself, and made it clear that the U.S. Navy would not be welcome.) Britain still plans to keep a 9,000-man garrison in beleaguered Hong Kong...
...Meeting-House itself figured significantly in Negro history. From the middle of the nineteenth century on, it was an active center of abolitionism; from its pulpit spoke such famous Negroes as Sojourner Truth, Frederick Douglass, and Harriet Tubman, and such eminent whites as William Lloyd Garrison and Wendell Phillips. The building was also, from 1876 to 1936, the home of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, which has since moved to Warren Street in Roxbury...
...additional mercenaries landed in Kisangani, probably from airports in Portuguese Angola. In the Congo border city of Bukuva, a force of European residents under the command of a rich Belgian planter named Joseph Schramm led remnants of Tshombe's old Katanga constabulary in attacks on the local army garrison...
...nicked Itō himself with a bullet in 1957. Finally, seven years ago, a Chamorro band caught his last companion climbing a coconut tree, and Itō decided he could go on no longer. Rather than face the jungle alone, he turned himself in at the U.S. garrison on the island...
Then, too, everyone-except Jim Garrison-could see the case closing in on the 6-ft. 6-in. district attorney. The press and TV continued to dismantle his imagined maze of Machiavellianism: secret codes that supposedly led to Ruby's telephone number, the elusive and probably fictional "Clay Bertrand," the Cuban intrigue. In New Orleans, where the ambitious D.A. is widely feared and conspiratorial theories are as highly relished as crayfish bisque, the Crime Commission demanded a sweeping state inquiry into Garrison's office...