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...over the country on their own. He also knows that his departure can come none too soon for the 80,000 non-Africans still in the Congo. To many Congolese these days, the words mercenaries and whites are synonymous, and whites and Asians alike realize that they are in mortal peril from revenge-seeking Africans as long as the mercenaries mock Congolese sovereignty...
...West German's grim travelogue reported in Hong Kong last week underscored a common theme in all the stories that drift out of China: a man's politics can put him in mortal danger anywhere in Mao Tse-tung's chaotic kingdom these days. But nowhere does the chaos seem quite so complete as in Canton. From day to day in the city of 2.5 million, it is difficult to tell just who is taking sides against whom-and why. Near anarchy has seen one faction of Red Guards pitted against another, and when they have...
...book of 77,934 words, memorized by millions for 50 generations, embodies much of Judaism and Christianity, which sprang out of the same awe-inspiring desert. Both simpler and more static, Islam postulates a fixed way of life ordained by God and transmitted to man through a series of mortal messengers (prophets), notably Adam, Abraham, Moses and Jesus. Until Mohammed, man misinterpreted the message, but the Prophet revealed it correctly. He permitted Moslems four wives (he had about a dozen) and invented a masculine eternity full of nubile virgins, a paradise assured by good works and obedience to simple rules...
...capital; 20 truckloads of pro-Thieu troops were reported en route to the city. Though the rumors proved false, the nation had good reason to be upset. A break between Ky and Thieu could have split the armed forces into rival camps, paralyzed the war effort and dealt a mortal blow to South Viet Nam's fragile experiment in constitutional government...
...same." And they were not above publishing fiction as fact. Mark Twain got his start in just this way when he was working for the Virginia City (Nev.) Territorial Enterprise. In one grisly fabrication, he described how a man murdered his wife and nine children, inflicted a mortal wound on himself, then rode four miles on horseback to a saloon where he brandished his wife's scalp. The tipplers, reported Twain, were much amused...