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...Margai-and locked them up with the Governor General and the victorious opposition leader. Then, with the nation's four most powerful politicians out of the way, they named an eight-man "National Reformation Council" to run the country. Headed by 39-year-old Lieut. Colonel Ambrose Patrick Genda, who was deputy army commander until Sir Albert fired him last year, the council's announced goal is to put Sierra Leone's frail democracy back together again...
When London reporters insisted on raking over his part in planning the attack on Pearl Harbor, Japan's visiting Air Defense Force chief, General Minoru Genda, 57, incautiously blurted: "I have no regrets." As his British Air Ministry hosts froze, blunt General Genda ("You must remember that in these things I speak as a soldier") hastily offered a retraction. "Yes, I do have regrets," he confessed. "We should not have attacked just once-we should have attacked again and again...