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...President Fulgencio Batista. As Cubans waited the call to a general strike and armed attacks, the usual wave of bombings and skirmishes gave way to ominous silence. Batista made ready for the showdown by asking his obedient Congress to vote him emergency powers, including the right to impose martial law, govern by decree, and use troops to meet any strike...
...level. Jerusalem's Mosque of Omar was "more beautiful than St. Mark's in Venice." The glories of Istanbul burst over Author Sitwell as he caught his first sight of its Imperial Mosques, bestriding the seven-hilled skyline ''like huge kettledrums with something menacing and martial in their air, and in that moment [Istanbul] is alone and tremendous . . . more of a capital than any other city, more than London, or than Rome or Paris...
...court-martial the prosecution, assembled three witnesses to link her to the crimes. One of them promptly denied that Djamila Bouhired had any part in the bombings; the second never appeared -she was also a paratrooper prisoner, and the newspapers announced that she had died in custody. The third was a 19-year-old girl named Djamila Bouazza who had spent three years in a mental hospital, answered most questions by machine-gunning the court with her finger and crying: "Tac-tac-tac." She tried to undress on the witness stand and, frantically spinning a bracelet on her wrist, alternately...
...traders and manganese miners). Said the complaint: "Since the Sudan is determined to defend its territory, the situation would result in a breach of the peace and, if uncontrolled, may develop into armed conflict." In Khartoum students protested, Nasser's picture disappeared from shop windows, Radio Omdurman blared martial music...
...arrested and charged with espionage. To avoid the scandal of a trial, which would involve a public admission that the General Staff itself had been corrupted by the Germans, the army tries to shame Dreyfus into suicide. He refuses, and the army is forced to convene a court-martial and invent enough evidence to support the charges. Convicted of high treason, Captain Dreyfus is publicly degraded and stripped of rank in the presence of the Minister of War himself, General Mercier, who looks down with cool indifference upon the ruined man, apparently not in the least concerned by new evidence...