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...Well when he was in town he let me feel the scar...
...last week China had written 26 "surrender" letters to Mau Mau chieftains, including "General Cargo," who operates north of Nairobi, and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi, alias Field Marshal Russia. The letters were delivered by armored cars to jungle letter boxes in hollow trees and to Mau Mau couriers waiting in forest clearings. China's plea: "Further violence will only bring greater suffering. Those who fight on now are criminal fanatics...
...Hitler's most agile hatchetmen, former SS Colonel Otto Skorzeny, who had whiled away many postwar years in Madrid as the constant companion of Use Luettge, decided to go respectable. Strapping, scar-faced Otto took Use, a niece of former Nazi Finance Minister Hjalmar Schacht, to a sleepy Castilian village and married her in a civil ceremony. Madrid's sizable German colony cheered, but good, churchgoing Madrilenos prepared to ignore the newlyweds...
Steep and unforgiving, the ski track lay like a white scar along the face of Sweden's Areskutan Mountain. Half a dozen of the world's best skiers had already tumbled into bone-bruising falls as they swooped down the dangerous drop, going all-out for the downhill championship of the world. Norway's Stein Eriksen might well have taken it easy. Far ahead on points after winning the slalom and giant slalom, the Oslo ski salesman could have coasted home to a safe, slow finish, still a sure bet for the championship of championships, the Alpine...
...alias "General China," the elusive desperado whose gangs have long dominated Mt. Kenya. An ex-railroad worker who was in the British army in Burma during World War II, "China"' is almost certainly the No. 2 man in the Mau Mau movement. No. 1 (and still at large): scar-faced Dedan Kimathi, who calls himself "General Russia...