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...name is John Mills, and he is big: 6 ft. 4 in. and 250 Ibs. He is also big in the nightclub business, being proprietor of London's most successful version of the El Morocco formula: Les Ambassadeurs, with its subsidiary discothèque called The Garrison and its gambling room called Le Cercle. Almost everyone Mills asked advised him not to buy Morocco, which had been falling off since John Perona died and his son Edwin moved the whole place two blocks farther east. And the rise of discothèques such as Le Club, Shepheard...
...fall of 1962, Jim Garrison, the towering district attorney of Orleans Parish, was determined to cut down vice in the French Quarter of New Orleans. But the parish's eight criminal judges refused to give their approval, which was necessary before the D.A.'s undercover agents could be paid. In a blast to the press, Garrison said the refusal raised "interesting questions about the racketeer influences on our eight vacation-minded judges." Garrison's statement raised something else: the judges charged him with criminal defamation, a misdemeanor that, in Louisiana, requires no jury trial. Garrison was convicted...
More Punch. The turning point came in August, when a loyalist garrison drove back a major rebel assault on Bukavu after three bloody days of street fighting, giving Tshombe's dispirited army its first real victory. Even more important, however, were 450 white mercenaries-mostly South Africans, Rhodesians and Belgians-recruited by Tshombe to give his army more punch...
...brigade's principal tactical weapon along the way had been the telephone: at each town it stopped long enough to phone a warning to the rebel garrison in the next town to get out while it could. Unfailingly, the rebels fled...
Though the revolt was smashed, it caused Shishekly's downfall. Many army officers opposed the ruthlessness of the campaign and, within weeks, the garrison of Aleppo mutinied against "the despot Shishekly, stepson of imperialism." Not waiting to argue the point, Shishekly abandoned his wife and children in Damascus and fled across the Anti-Lebanon range in a snowstorm to the safety of Beirut. During the next few years he vainly plotted a return to power from Saudi Arabia and Switzerland...