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...makeshift courtroom in Luanda's sandstone Chamber of Commerce building, where they went on trial last month, the 13 British and American mercenaries gathered after a nine-day hiatus in the proceedings, during which the five-member revolutionary tribunal had deliberated their fate. Optimism ran reasonably high among Angolan, British and American defense lawyers, even though Prosecutor Manuel Rui Monteiro had demanded death for all. In his marathon summation (3 hr. 20 min.), Monteiro had blasted the U.S. and British governments more than the mercenaries. He branded the U.S. as "the home of the CIA and the mother...
...joyful and agonizing images created a furor in France, where wartime collaboration with the Germans is a sensitive and often inflammatory topic. Although Let's Sing was playing in eight packed movie houses in Paris last month, the distributor was intimidated into withdrawing the film after only a nine-day showing. The reason: five masked men, styling themselves "The Revolutionary Commandos of the Christian West," trashed one of the movie houses, because they found the film "offensive to the memory of the dead." While the movie's director, former Journalist André Halimi, sought less timorous distributors...
...freshman will leave for Henley on June 18 after a nine-day training sojourn in Squam Lake, New Hampshire, coach Ted Washburn said yesterday...
...tanned and healthy, but his smile was tight and his bearing stiff. With his wife Pat and two of Peking's diplomats, he posed briefly at the doorway of the gleaming Chinese Boeing 707 jetliner. With that, the Richard Nixons flew from Los Angeles last week for a nine-day trip to the People's Republic of China, invited by Chairman Mao Tse-tung to mark the fourth anniversary of the former President's door-opening visit there. No fewer than 20 newsmen followed along. On hand to greet Nixon at the Peking airport was Acting Premier...
...M.P.L.A. did not score a military victory [in Angola]," said Henry Kissinger at a Washington press conference last week. "Cuba scored a military victory, backed by the Soviet Union." On the eve of a nine-day, six-nation visit to Latin America, the Secretary of State implicitly raised a question that is bound to be asked at every stop along the way: What is the meaning-and the potential danger-of Cuba's armed intervention in Angola...