Word: nine
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Love of Planning. The Russians first defected from Communism when their ship, the oil tanker Tuapse, was seized by the Chinese Nationalists in the Formosa Strait about 20 months ago. No fewer than 20 of the Tuapse's, 49-man crew took political asylum in Formosa, and nine moved on last fall to New York...
...Surrender, Donkeys." The raid was the deadliest of many launched last week by fedayeen irregulars as Egypt and Israel verged on war across the tensest frontier in the world. Nine Jews were killed, more than 50 were injured in some 30 reported attacks. The raiders, mainly Palestinian Arabs recruited from the Gaza border camps (and not technically in the Egyptian army), struck hardest in the coastal plain, always at night. No citizen of the tiny republic was safe from the "Nights of Horror," as Cairo's newspaper Al Akh-bar jubilantly headlined the raids, and never...
Rehabilitation. The journal Voprosi Istorii (official framer of Soviet history) announced that nine outstanding Red army leaders condemned by Stalin in that period had been fully rehabilitated to the honored though posthumous status of "comrades." Included among them were three marshals of the Soviet Union and a number of top commissars, most of them heroes of the civil war whose exploits were once on every lip. No nine names could have been better chosen to evoke the black tale of intrigue and assassination in the years before World...
...army is exerting a major influence on the new party line. But, despite Marshal Zhukov's apparently enlarging role in Central Committee affairs, it must also be remembered that (according to Marshal Alexander Vasilevsky), 86.4% of all Red army officers are also party members. Although most of the nine men mentioned by Voprosi Istorii were associated with Trotsky when he was War Commissar, their rehabilitation has been carried out without any mention of Trotsky, or of the charges of Trotskyite collaboration made against them by Stalin...
Last week the 97 elected delegates to Tunisia's first constituent assembly met in Tunis, less than nine miles from the ruins of once proud Carthage, which boldly challenged ancient Rome for world supremacy. Now, in long subjected Tunisia, a new nation was being born. Opening the inaugural sessions, the spade-bearded, well-tailored old Bey of Tunis gracefully bowed to the new spirit of democracy, dispensed with the traditional custom which once decreed that every Tunisian present should kiss his hand in token of submission...