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...hospital in labor with their first child. Talamas rushed into the streets at 2:30 a.m. to seek a specialist. Police arrested him because he lacked a curfew pass, released him after a few hours. The cops learned that earlier that evening three men appeared outside a gendarmery outpost near Port-au-Prince, and as a pretext to get near said they were seeking a doctor to help a woman in childbirth, then suddenly opened fire, killing four sentries. To the suspicious police, already hysterically fearful of attack by bitter-end partisans of defeated Candidate Déjoie, the similarity...
...building, a joint project of the U.S., the West German government and the city of Berlin. Designed as a cultural center where plays, music, debates and symposiums will be held, the new structure has a 1,260-seat auditorium, conference halls and restaurant. It was not only a new outpost for freedom of speech in the cold war, but the most talked-about structure in Berlin...
...whodunits a week; Poet Stephen Vincent Benét researched John Brown's Body within its walls, and Molotov once checked out an almanac. Since its start in 1920, the American Library-a nonprofit, privately operated institution now located on the Champs-Elysées-has been an outpost of U.S. culture that has soothed homesick tourists, stimulated bored expatriates, and provided facts-good or bad-about the U.S. to anyone who dropped...
...soon as Captain Pierre, commander of the Kong-Plong outpost in south Indo-China, saw the handsome, flaxen-haired corporal from Lyon, he felt that he had a solution to the problem of winning over certain Moi' tribes which had taken up a neutral position in the war with the Communist-led Viet Minh. After a workout with the colonial troops, Corporal Riesen, the author of this book, was sent into the mountainous jungle 'of central Viet Nam. Friendly Moi' chieftains offered him a bride. Corporal Riesen demurred ("She was only nineteen and very pretty . . . with...
...worst horror was still to come-from Algeria itself. Eighty miles southeast of Algiers, a patrol-plane pilot noticed huts burning in Kouir Mechta, a quiet, untroublesome stone-and-mud village where the French had always had a cordial welcome. The French dispatched a patrol from the nearest outpost 15 miles away. They found half a dozen dead men surrounded by hysterically screaming women, tearing their cheeks with their fingernails until the blood came. At dawn, said the women, 100 uniformed fellaghas had surrounded the village. They had seized the local policeman, cut off his hands, gouged out his eyes...