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...Castro. "If what they want is to provoke a war, they are going to have it - cost what it may. Let us prepare our surface-to-air missiles." In a diplomatic note delivered through the Swiss embassy in Havana, the Cubans formally warned the U.S. against "flagrant violations of na tional sovereignty." Another bellicose note to the U.N. said much the same thing...
...Southern Rhodesia achieved "responsible self-government" more than 40 years ago as a territorial member of the British Commonwealth. But since then, with the emergence of black-ruled independent states throughout Africa, the definition of responsibility has changed. Under Southern Rhodesia's constitution, only 60,000 of the na tion's 3,600,000 blacks qualify to vote, and the government remains under the control of a white minority numbering...
...gold ring to fit onto each big toe, and then two tinkling anklets to snap into place. Finally the soles of her feet were painted red. But it was not just for kicks. Heiress Barbara Mutton, 51, a Protestant, was marrying Laotian Painter-Chemist Prince Raymond Doan Vinh Na Champassak, 48, a Buddhist, and they were doing it his way. Babs had never tried a Buddhist ceremony, and so this time around it was a sari affair at her $1,500,000 estate near Cuernavaca, Mexico. There were seven tiers to the wedding cake, not in honor of her seven...
...India Edwards, nearing 70, longtime Johnson supporter, former vice chairman of the Democratic Na tional Committee. Job: special consultant on youth employment to the Secretary of Labor...
...based not on wild promises of a golden future but on a clear-eyed appraisal of the hard work that lay ahead. His own sober determination to get on with the job of building a nation seemed to have communicated itself to his people, largely through his motto, "Uhuru na kazi"-"Independence and work." Then, in a sudden, senseless instant, Nyerere's carefully woven fabric of stability ripped down the middle. His army rose against him; riots exploded in the streets of Dar es Salaam. Only by calling in British troops did Nyerere survive. When the smoke cleared...