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Kalait is a collection of smashed huts, thorn trees and wrecked vehicles. The army's divisional headquarters is a green canvas tent captured from the Libyans. Inside, sitting with legs crossed on a carpet, is the general, Abdul Raman Berdabali, 47, looking like a bird of prey. "Oh, yes," he says, pointing to a heap of seven land mines sitting next to his sleeping mat, "there are plenty of mines about. They are plastic, which makes them hard to detect." Under his watchful eye, everyone devours trays of boiled mutton covered with flies. Again, all eat together. "Even Camarade...
...word of the award on his birthday, is a slight, 5-ft. 6-in. scholar with a shy manner, a preference for black suits and a love of Tolstoy, Mozart and Beethoven. Born in Lahore, then part of India, to a prominent Hindu family (his physicist uncle, Sir Chandrasekhara Raman, won a Nobel in 1930), Chandra, as he is called by physicists everywhere, began the work for which he was cited more than a half-century ago. In 1930, when he was only 19 years old, he whiled away the long shipboard hours on his way to begin studies...
Died. Sir Chandrasekhara V. Raman, 82, Indian physicist who won the 1930 Nobel Prize for his work on the diffusion of light; in Bangalore, India. Professor at the University of Calcutta, Raman discovered in the late 1920s that when a beam of monochromatic light shines through a transparent substance like quartz or water, the wave length, and thus the color, of some of the scattered rays is changed. The Raman effect, as it was called, became useful in determining fine molecular structure...
...aise: Ben Moulay Arafa would leave, but turn over the royal seal, symbol of the Sultan's authority, not to the Regency Council but to a member of his own family. The old Sultan seemed ready to agree, but then balked. His chief adviser, Vizier Si Hadj Abder Raman el Hajou, had talked him into refusing any compromise at all. De Latour acted. At 4 one morning, police arrived at El Hajou's apartment in downtown...
...Raman hove to-and the perfect escape was over. Next day she was back in Bremen, where police took the precaution of disabling her engines. Then they threw at Owner Mardin just about every charge in the maritime code book: speeding, dangerous passing, scraping a dock, steaming without lights, failing to give signals or obey traffic regulations, cutting a tug adrift and violating Germany's customs, passport, currency and ship clearance regulations. For all that, the police inspector could not down his admiration. "I must offer my highest praise for your brilliant navigational maneuvers," said he handsomely. Replied Hasim...