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...victims-were Louis Drouin, 28, a short, stocky mulatto, and Marcel Numa, 21, a tall handsome Negro, both members of a 13-man guerrilla force that landed on Haiti's southern coast four months ago. Operating independently of other scattered bands in Haiti, they ambushed troop columns, encouraged peasants to defy their Duvalier overseers. Papa Doc had no trouble finding out who they were; in tiny Negro Haiti, the word gets around fast by telediol grapevine...
...embassy and handed Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II a truculent letter. It declared that President Eisenhower's impending visit to Japan, scheduled for June 19, "will only provoke the Japanese people, already infuriated by the passing of the security pact." Mac-Arthur retorted with a demand that Asa numa retract his widely ballyhooed statements that "the U.S. is the common enemy of China and Japan." "Not the American people," cried Asanuma. "American imperialism!" What was the difference? "Mr. Asanuma was unable to make any clear distinction," observed MacArthur in a public statement after the meeting. As for Asanuma...
...than savages." In the end, the Roman senators grow tired of old Romulus' tricks, and of his sanctimoniousness; they surround him in a fog and hack him to pieces (Duggan discards the legend that Romulus ascended to heaven in a cloud). The novel ends with the gentle Sabine Numa Pompilius taking over the vacant throne of the young city in 715 B.C. Prolific Author Duggan has a legion of books and some 1,200 years of Roman history still awaiting...
...Corinthians, and from the beginning, man's desperate struggling for order and justice has given force to the law. It gave force to the divinely inspired canons for human conduct of Moses; it gave force to the rule of the Hindu Manu, the Babylonian Hammurabi, the Roman Numa and the Greek Lycurgus; it gave force to the law as a human science in the Digest of Rome's Emperor Justinian; it gave force to the common law of England, based on principle, shaped by experience, controlled by reason...
...illegitimate and has the highest percentage of illiteracy and tuberculosis in Argentina. But it was not these evils which last week led President Ramón S. Castillo to use the handy Latin American device of a government interventor to replace popularly elected Governor Pedro Numa Soto. President Castillo said administrative scandals forced him to interfere. Actually he usurped control of the political stronghold of pro-Ally General Augustin Justo, who may be his opponent in 1943's Presidential elections...