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Before entering the mansion, the candidates left their firearms in their cars (police found two rifles, eleven pistols). But when Mohammed's aide saw that el Ali was accompanied by a notorious gunman, he warned his master to keep his pistol. Replied Mohammed: "No. That would be disrespect for the President." He went into the house unarmed. When he left the meeting, the gunman confronted him. "The Abbouds have tyrannized us for 50 years," he cried. Then he fired five shots into Mohammed. Guards seized the gunman. Two days later, Mohammed died, telling clansmen that...
After he left the clinic where he had been treated for a head injury last month, Manuel Cardinal Arteaga, 73, Archbishop of Havana, maintained an austere silence while Cuba buzzed with rumors that he had been pistol-whipped during a search of his palace by agents looking for hidden revolutionaries or weapons (TIME, Sept. 7). Last week the cardinal shed a little light on the mystery; in a pastoral letter he said he had been the victim of "a common criminal attempt" by men whom he did not know, but whom he wished to forgive "in the Christian way." That...
Mexico, the old, picturesque land of the eagle and the serpent, of barefoot peasants drowsing in the plazas and well-shod politicians browsing in the treasury, is passing through a new kind of revolution. After the pistol-packing generals and the gay-grafting statesmen, the republic has a new and different President who has embarked on nothing less than a wholesale program for cleaning up Mexico. This revolutionary President is a slight, grey, austere man named Adolfo Ruiz Cortines, who took office last December at 61, the oldest man to become Mexican President since Porfirio Díaz fell...
...with Monopolies. To Mexicans' amazement, awe and admiration, Ruiz Cortines sailed into the "monopolists," i.e., Alemán pals who got strangleholds on many business activities. In March he struck hard to smash the monopoly of Mexico City oil distribution, held by pistol-packing Multimillionaire Jorge Pas-quel of Mexican-baseball-league fame. Then, in succession, he expertly dethroned Transport King Antonio Díaz Lombardo, who had made $40 million as boss of the bus lines and head of Alemán's lucrative Social Security Department, and loosened the grip of Multimillionaire Aaron Saenz on Mexico...
...Camp Perry, Ohio, the high-powered rifle events of the National Rifle and Pistol Matches (TIME, Sept. 7) were won by two U.S. marines. With 435 points out of a possible 450, Master Sergeant Maxim R. Beebe took the service-rifle title. Staff Sergeant Don L. Smith won the sporting-rifle championship with...