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Next, a pro-Phoumi commander at Paksane, 100 miles to the northeast, advanced on Vientiane to reinforce Bounleut. His troops were scattered by "yellow" artillery fire with a loss of three dead. Phoumi Nosavan then appeared in the capital in full battle dress, announced that unless Kouprasith ended his siege...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Laos: Battle of the Neckerchiefs | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

Not at all. One of the first acts of Premier Kosygin's new leadership was to extend the experiments. Kosygin announced that in gradual stages the new system would be spread throughout the whole of the consumer-goods industry. Last month the first 400 clothing and shoe firms scattered...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Russia: Borrowing from the Capitalists | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

The new proposal to strengthen the rules stems from a 1958 inquiry into the rights of criminal defendants, which the government dusted off without warning or explanation. If the proposal becomes law, Fleet Street will be prohibited from even reporting pretrial arraignments-the first court step in an accused man...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Newspapers: Rigid Restriction in Britain | 2/12/1965 | See Source »

For Josephus was a turncoat. During the savage Roman-Jewish war that destroyed the Jewish state and scattered its people around the world, Josephus expediently forsook his Jewish citizenship to become a Roman. In countless apologias, he argued that his aim was not to save his skin but to convince...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Survivor | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

Brought before Vespasian, Josephus pleaded for his life by relating a dream he had had: Vespasian would become Emperor of Rome. Vespasian was so delighted by the news that he set Josephus up in style and provided him with a wife; in turn, Josephus spent the rest of the war...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Survivor | 1/29/1965 | See Source »

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