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...Third Army" of General Lee Wun-huan, headquartered near the Thai city of Chiang Mai, and the "Fifth Army" of General Tuan Hsi-wan, with a base camp near Chiang Rai...
Paris Match, the French picture magazine, chartered a Caravelle jet to fly 55 staffers and a photo processing lab to the Holy Land. RAI, Italy's government-owned broadcasting system, borrowed an L.S.T. from the Italian Navy, debarked 35 vehicles and 245 men. Tiny Lebanon managed to deploy a journalistic force of 60. Even Tass, the Russian news service, and the big Moscow dailies, Pravda and Izvestia, put correspondents on the scene. All told, some 1,200 newsmen from 34 countries converged on the first papal visit to the Holy Land. Inevitably, the press and its photographers made much...
Grade-B Thriller. The campaign reached a peak with the arrival in Algiers last month of six men from Italy's state-owned radio-TV network, RAI. Scarcely had the newcomers registered at the flea-bitten Hotel Aletti when S.A.O. gunmen invaded the hotel and, under the studiously indifferent gaze of hotel employees, not only made off with $8,000 worth of RAI equipment but kidnaped an Italian newsman as well. Fifteen minutes too late, the armed French riot police showed...
...revolution started in 1910, it did not reach its climax until the six-year period from 1934 through 1940, when President Lazaro Cardenas expropriated foreign oil companies. Since then, Mexican Presidents have turned to the right, encouraging domestic and foreign private enterprise. The government itself became big business, running rai roads and oil, sharing investments with private capital through its own development corporation, Nacional Financiera...
Backward Teachers. Sukarno was born in a small village about 60 miles from the seaport city of Surabaja in 1901, the only son of an impoverished Javanese schoolteacher named Sukemi* and a high-caste Balinese mother, Ida Njoman Rai...