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$1 Billion Indemnity. A bomb scare delayed his flight from San Juan for an hour while the chartered airliner was searched. When Bosch arrived in Santo Domingo, a few scattered shots greeted his caravan as it sped from the airport into the old rebel zone of the city; no one...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Dominican Republic: Unheroic Return | 10/1/1965 | See Source »

"Kasur is deserted and its inhabitants scattered over the countryside," Rademaekers reported. "Buzzards wheel overhead and settle with a flourish of wings on the swollen carcasses of water buffalo. Dogs prowl through the rubble, stirring up black clouds of flies, as they try to reach putrid human flesh buried beneath...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Curious Battle of Kasur | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

With that, Ky accepted the surrender of some 500 of the most rebellious warriors of the 30-odd largely illiterate montagnard (hill people) tribes that are scattered through the empty high lands-half of South Viet Nam (TIME Oct. 2, 1964). Trouble could break out again, for the rebels demand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Surrender | 9/24/1965 | See Source »

His terrestrial kingdom consisted of hundreds of properties, or "heavens"-from hotels to beauty parlors to moving firms. Worth at least $10 million, they are scattered throughout the U.S. and in Austria, Australia, Sweden, West Germany, Switzerland and England. Father Divine's own abode, Woodmont, was the gift of...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cults: A Deity Derepersonifitized | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

To the credit of both governments, each was doing what it could to damp down the possibility of religious massacres. Most of Pakistan's Hindus are in the East zone, so far little affected by the war. Pledges of loyalty to India came from many communities among the nation's...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Asia: Ending the Suspense | 9/17/1965 | See Source »

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