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...London, the Treasury announced that during November reserves dropped another $109.2 million, shrinking Britain's international bank balance to $2,343,600,000, lowest in seven years. There were whispers that even these figures hid the true dimensions of the drain. Last week Britain drew another SI billion in financing, this time from the International Monetary Fund, to pay off short-term loans that had been contracted earlier to support the pound...
...troops entered the rebel headquarters near Lumumba Square, a black hand was spotted reaching from a closet to clo& the door. A Belgian opened up with his automatic rifle. In the headquarters alone, 25 rebels-mostly unarmed, minor political types -were sprayed with rifle fire as they hid under beds, beneath the kitchen table, and in wardrobes, which toppled like tipped coffins as their occupants died. Outside, Tshombe's tough Katangese gendarmes hunted down Simbas...
...that will be the hallmark of to morrow's interceptor. But even more to the point, the A-11's role as a fighter plane was obvious to those who inspected it on the ground. There were bomb-bay doors in the craft's belly that hid a covey of four-vaned air-to-air AIM (Air Intercept Missile) missiles...
...rear of the motorcade, Robert H. Jackson, a Dallas Times Herald photographer, saw a rifle being slowly drawn back through an open window. Directly across from the building, Amos Lee Euins, a 15-year-old ninth-grade student, saw a man shoot twice from a window; Euins hid behind a bench...
...lead as Designer Olin Stephens' powerful hull knifed smoothly through the buffeting swells, while Sovereign pounded like a flat-bottomed scow. When Constellation swept across the finish line, Sovereign was 21 miles and more than 20 minutes behind. Aboard the British tender, Sovereign's designer, David Boyd, hid his face in his hands...