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LOWELL: Charles Squier, g: James Lawson, g: Robert Wiley, t: Richard Bowditch, t: Tom Johnson, e: Ted Briggs, hb: Lan Cadenhead, hb: Bruce White, fb: Dave Dawson, fb Robert Lown...
...series of arrests without warrant brought more publicity than the government bargained for. On Jan. 27 military intelligence arrested 26 persons presumably for complicity with the Huks. They included booksellers, labor leaders, a movie producer and eight well-known Manila newspapermen. Two biggest fish among the arrested newsmen: Jose Lan-sang, executive editor of Manila's Philippines Herald, and the Manila Times's star police reporter, Mucario Vincencio, who has written several articles exposing graft...
...minorities). He found that the younger intellectuals among the U.S.S.R.'s racial minorities are becoming increasingly restive under Russia's rigid control, also found that the Soviet hold on youth is less ironclad than generally supposed, because Communism has lost its aura of rebellion, its "ideological élan." But opposition is locked in the separate minds of millions of individuals, and unless it is organized it is valueless. There is no sign that it is becoming organized. The modern world has several impressive examples of the ability of dictatorships to control their people even under the most extreme...
...formally took over the Dragon Throne at Hué; two years later he married beautiful Mariette-Jeanne Nguyen Huu Thi Lan, the daughter of a wealthy Cochin-Chinese merchant. The Empress Nam Phuong was a Roman Catholic, educated at Paris' Convent "Aux Oiseaux...
...hand-picked delegates chose Party Boss Mao Tse-tung as the Republic's chairman. Beneath him they put six vice chairmen. Half represented non-Communist window-dressing: Madame Sun Yatsen, fellow-traveling widow of the great Nationalist revolutionary; Marshal Li Chi-shen, leader of dissident Nationalists; and Chang Lan, septuagenarian chief of the Democratic League. The remainder were top-level Communists: Liu Shao-chi, Politburo theoretician second only to Mao; Chu Teh, aging commander in chief of the Red army; and Kao Kang, pro-Russian boss of the Manchurian "People's" Government. The dual post of Premier...