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...location in nearby Godfrey, Eichen and his fellow film makers-un-supervised by a teacher because the filming took place during vacation-taped a half-inch-thick piece of soft pine to Nilsson's chest. Then, as the 8-mm. camera whirred, a"pusher" knocked Nilsson to the ground with faked blows of a club...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: YOUTH: Special Effects | 1/26/1976 | See Source »

...terrorist courier, Michel Moukarbel, was on his way from Beirut with money and instructions for an agent in Paris. Moukarbel was arrested in France and led three DST agents to Carlos' apartment on the Rue Toullier, near the Sorbonne. Confronted with the informer, Carlos pulled out a 7.65-mm. pistol and fired five shots. Moukarbel and two of the agents were killed; the third was critically wounded...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The World: The Man Known as 'Carlos' | 1/5/1976 | See Source »

...this year has totaled more than $100 million. According to both British and American experts, the Soviets have sent the M.P.L.A. an air-defense system of SA-7 missiles, substantial numbers of T-54 and T-55 tanks, armored personnel carriers, antitank guns, heavy artillery and 107-mm. and 122-mm. rockets...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN POLICY: The Battle Over Angola | 12/29/1975 | See Source »

Massive Russian aid is turning the tide in Angola's murky three-way civil war, apparently in favor of the Luanda government of the Soviet-backed M.P.L.A. Last week barrages of Cuban-fired 107-mm. and 122-mm. Soviet rockets turned away the Zaïre-based F.N.L.A. forces ten miles north of Luanda, thereby putting the M.P.L.A. capital safely out of range of Chinese 130-mm. artillery manned by white Portuguese Angolans fighting with the F.N.L.A. The M.P.L.A. also recaptured the important road junction of Caxito, northeast of Luanda, and was closing in on the coastal city...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ANGOLA: A Turn in the Tide | 12/15/1975 | See Source »

Oswald's 6.5 mm. Mannlicher-Carcano Italian rifle required at least 2.3 seconds between each firing to work the bolt, aim and pull the trigger. Thus it was possible for Oswald to have fired both shots at Kennedy within five seconds-but not to have got off a third shot that wounded Connally within the same time span. Since the bullet that went through Kennedy's neck obviously was traveling on a downward course but left no hole anywhere in the car, the Warren Commission staff concluded that it must have hit Connally...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: WHO KILLED J.F.K.? JUST ONE ASSASSIN | 11/24/1975 | See Source »

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