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TIME, May 1: "In western India's Forest of Gir where lions roam"-LIONS...
...western India's Forest of Gir where lions roam, lived a band of dacoits (bandits). Their leader was a fierce man, for he had been arrested by the police, and he had vowed vengeance on all patels, the subcaste to which most policemen in that region belonged: he had sworn to cut off the nose of every patel he met. But the leader had barely begun to slice when he was betrayed to the police, who shot him dead...
...head. It spent 500 rupees a day trying to track him down with horses, jeeps and machine guns. This month, it spread a rumor that a large sum of money was being kept in the forester's office in a village deep in the heart of the Gir Forest. When Visa and his band dashed into the village, they were caught in ambush, and Visa and three henchmen were killed. In triumph the police laid out the bodies before the unhappy villagers, and took them to the bank of the Hiran River. Next day, near the temple where Visa...
When one well-to-do Ruandan greets another, he places his hands lightly on his friend's elbows and says: "/ sho, sho, sho, gir inka" (I hope your cows are doing well). The friend replies: "Eeh, eeh" (I hope yours...
...Girál's Government was consulting with the Communists, led by Dolores Ibarruri (La Pasionaria) of Civil War fame. It was in contact with the chief Spanish underground, of unassessable political strength, known as the National Alliance of Democratic Forces. But it considered Rightists like Gil Robles as "renegade republicans." It sneered at the monarchists-"a cabal of old women made up almost entirely of political whores and political virgins." Spanish disunity was as tragically great as ever...