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According to international practice, Algeria should not surrender Tshombe to Mobutu inasmuch as he was convicted on political, not criminal, charges. Yet Boumediene is eager to improve his image in Black Africa, whose leaders almost all revile Tshombe as a "Black Judas" for protecting Belgian financial interests in the Congo...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Abduction in the Air | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

"Black Judas." Who did it? An official Algerian government report fingered Bodenan, 42, who served ten years in a French prison on a murder conviction. According to the Algerian investigators, Bodenan drew a silencer-equipped automatic pistol, shot at (but apparently did not hit) the first passenger who moved, and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Congo: Abduction in the Air | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

There are only seven complete sets known. Each is made up of 13 spoons, a dozen for the saints of the Last Supper and the last for Christ. Judas Iscariot is replaced by St. Matthias,* for what father would give his child a Judas spoon to slurp up his porridge...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Crafts: Stirring Up the Past | 1/6/1967 | See Source »

At a Sydney rally last week, spectators hooted and booed Holt for his pro-Viet Nam stand; as he left the rally, a jeering mob of 500 swarmed around him, pummeling, kicking and finally spitting on him. When police finally got Holt to his car, a few diehards threw themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Australia: Vanquished Vietniks | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

There are seven suicides in the Bible, from Samson to Judas, and neither the Old Testament nor the New specifically forbids it, as does the Koran, which calls suicide "a much graver crime than homicide." But St. Augustine condemned it as "a detestable and damnable wickedness," perhaps to put a...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Essay: ON SUICIDE | 11/25/1966 | See Source »

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