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...crew-cut hair, Baer was so close an associate that he was allowed to read Ben-Gurion's private diaries, was told three days in advance of Israel's intention to start the successful 1956 Sinai campaign. Austrian-born, Baer fought as a battalion commander on the Loyalist side in the Spanish Civil War, went to Palestine in 1938 as a military instructor to Haganah, the powerful Jewish underground organization...
...near casualty was U.S. Ambassador Arthur L. Richards, 53, who had taken on the dangerous task of serving as messenger between the two sides. Just before the assault, Richards had arrived at the palace bearing a letter from a loyalist general. While Rebel "Premier" Ras Imru (who was forgiven for his role in the revolt last week by the Emperor on the grounds that he had acted "under duress") was scribbling his reply, loyalist tanks came charging through the palace gates. Richards scampered out a window in the nick of time-"it was the nearest available exit." Another U.S. official...
...Ethiopia's Red Sea state of Eritrea, which was still under command of a loyal general. As his plane grew nearer, the plotters' fortunes began to wane. They could not even secure control of all Addis Ababa, and shells whistled into the center of town from loyalist army posts. In frustration, the rebels shot a few government officials they had captured and then fled into the mountains. Haile Selassie landed at Asmara to wild cheers and the usual earth-scraping bows...
Died. Rudolph Charles von Ripper, 55, Austrian-born artist best known for his savage, Goyaesque, anti-Nazi etchings of the 1930s. and courageous soldier of fortune who was wounded many times while serving in the French Foreign Legion, Spanish Loyalist air force. U.S. Army and the OSS; of a heart attack; in Pol-lensa, Majorca...
...sight of Castro's anger, his labor-union bosses called out the mob. Descending next day on the Spanish embassy, deserted in the nick of time by Ambassador Lojendio. the crowd ran up the Cuban and Spanish Loyalist flags on the embassy pole, threw tomatoes, shouted and waved banners reading DOWN WITH FRANCO! OUT WITH LOJENDIO! TO SPAIN OR TO PRISON ! Another mob trailed Lojendio to the airport next morning, yelling as he boarded a plane for home: "Get out, you jackass...