Word: guardedness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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For Katanga's Moise Tshombe, it was the worst of times. Once he was the cockiest Congolese of them all, the man with the most money and the tidiest private army. Last week, stripped of his Belgian advisers and cut off from his troops, he languished in a guarded...
Written in elegant Mishnaic Hebrew, the letters had an oddly contemporary ring. As in present-day Israel, all land belonged to the state, and one set of scrolls disclosed an intricate real estate deal in which a government administrator leased several plots to a four-man syndicate which, in turn...
At 8:30 p.m., kick-off time for previous demonstrations, the Yard was deathly silent. Police guarded every exit and Dean Monro paced around Widener, watching for possible instigators.
Nestled in the hills near Langley, Va., is an eight-story building on a site that covers 140 acres. This, next jail, will be the new headquarters of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency, and will house more than 10,000 of its employees. With thousands of others posted around the...
When the British sent Firebrand Jomo Kenyatta to jail eight years ago for starting the Mau Mau revolt, they thought they were putting "Burning Spear" away for good. To offset any lingering loyalty among his supporters, they put out reports that he was growing senile and increasingly alcoholic. But in...