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...make sure that no one cheats. If carried out as promised, that pact would almost certainly result in the fall of Sallal, and the Yemen Premier immediately let out a loud complaint. Big Brother, he wailed, had betrayed him. But Nasser had no other choice. So desperately close to ruin has the Israeli war left Egypt that he simply cannot afford the expense of keeping troops in Yemen. He can barely afford to keep them in Cairo...
...give or take a few years. This is an Ugly Duckling syndrome embodying wish fulfillment-identifying with someone who has succeeded time and time again in spite of being shunned, laughed at and teased. Luckily for Judy Garland, she succeeds even though these would-be Cinderellas almost ruin her concerts with their fanatic screaming...
Despite the economic ruin that would follow a massive Belgian withdrawal, Mobutu was anything but contrite. He denied personal responsibility for the rioting, insisted that all well-meaning whites were perfectly safe in his country. If there was any anti-Belgian hysteria, he said, it was all to be blamed on the mercenaries sitting boldly in Bukavu and issuing ultimatums calling for the return of Moise Tshombe...
...exile. This Temple, in turn, was destroyed by the Romans when they turned Jerusalem into a flaming holocaust and sent its inhabitants into the Diaspora. Although most Jews fled the city, a few remained to bewail the fate of God's people at the Temple site; the principal ruin ultimately became known as the Wailing Wall...
...another attendant, "if we get a mean elephant out of this-she certainly isn't going to get any smaller." Yet, despite the opening-day mayhem, Zoo Director Frank Vincenzi is determined to make the animals available to children. "There will be no fences," he said. "That would ruin what we're trying to make here...