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...Nairobi, a gang of Mau Mau terrorists struck at an African village, captured a Kikuyu tribesman known to be loyal to the British, and chopped off his head. Round their wrists the terrorists wore bangles of human skin, stripped from the flesh of earlier victims. Their commander in chief, scar-faced "General" Dedan Kimathi, had offered them $7 for every dead Kikuyu, $16.80 for every dead Briton...
During World War II, pug-nosed, Australian-born Stanley ("Davo") Davidson and scar-faced Dedan Kimathi served together in Ethiopia as members of the King's African Rifles. When the war was over, Davidson returned to bored peacefulness in Sydney. Kimathi, a onetime Kikuyu schoolteacher, went on to become the almost legendary "General Russia," fiercest chieftain of Kenya's bloodthirsty Mau Man terrorists...
...vainly to get in. On the stage, the country's top entertainers trooped to the microphone to sing and play in a two-hour broadcast over Mexico's 254 radio stations. All of the 50-odd songs they sang were the work of a gaunt, sad-eyed, scar-faced wisp of a man who watched from the wings. His name: Agustin Lara, who was celebrating the 25th anniversary of his career as Mexico's and Latin America's favorite composer...
...group, it appeared, had used a Düsseldorf import-export firm to organize a neo-Nazi International, with contacts in France, Britain, Spain and Argentina. German firms looking for business in Madrid were told to see Otto Skorzeny, the scar-faced ex-SS officer who recaptured Mussolini in 1943. In Buenos Aires the man to see was Hans Ulrich Rudel, the one-legged Panzer knacker (tankbuster) now attached to Dictator Perón's army-training staff, who last week was given special leave to fly to Germany for a "whirlwind tour of speeches" on behalf...
...Sound Stage (Fri. 9:30 p.m., NBC). Betsy von Furstenberg in No Scar...