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...spectacle of Lawyer Castro's ignoring the principle of double jeopardy caused the Havana, Santiago and National Bar Associations to protest. A defense attorney for the airmen, Carlos Peña Justiz, said the reversal could stamp Castro as "a new Napoleon in the Caribbean." Muttered Castro: "Reactionary." As he spoke, firing squads across the island were busy building the week's execution total to 30, the overall accounting...
...feel like a lion who discovers that the bear's hug doesn't break his ribs." So said Britain's Prime Minister Harold Macmillan on the first jovial evening of his mission to Russia. This week, as he prepared to carry out the diplomatic equivalent of Napoleon's retreat from Moscow, Macmillan has learned a little more about bears...
Last week, when Italy refused to allow two Austrian nationalists to enter the disputed region to help the German-speaking population celebrate the150th anniversary of a Tyrolean uprising against Napoleon, Austria called home its ambassador to Rome. Viennese newspapers said he had been "insulted" by being forced to cool his heels in an anteroom of the Italian Foreign Office. White-stockinged Tyroleans from the Austrian side, who look so gay in the travel posters, staged a grim memorial service outside Vienna's St. Stephen's Cathedral...
...political brawl to old-fashioned warfare. Throughout the native quarters of Bacongo and Poto-Poto, Balali tribesmen, loyal to the abbé, and the M'Boshi went after each other with everything from broken bottles to the deadly assagai-the short spear used by Chaka, the "Black Napoleon," to conquer his 19th century Zulu empire. At first the M'Boshi in their white headdresses proved more adept at carving up their enemies just as their ancestors used to do, but the Balalis, wearing leaves in their hair, retaliated by setting whole blocks of M'Boshi shanties...
...newspapers of his day hailed Vail as "the Napoleon of communications." He envisioned a huge interconnecting system of telephones-and set out to create it. He swept all the Bell interests into one company, gobbled up faltering independents. He kept control by buying up stock in the operating companies, held onto all long-distance lines, and continued the company's early practice of licensing all services-the framework under which A. T. & T. still operates...