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...Voice of America broadcasts," an officer "who ran a truck to Nuremberg every two weeks for supplies," one consul, one vice-consul, one code clerk, three secretaries, and a military establishment consisting of "an Air Force colonel and an Army colonel who competed unhappily for the assistance of one sergeant...
Christine eventually took a job in a London dress house. At a small Soho cafe called The Zodiac, she met a Spanish waiter named Carlo, began spending weekends with him at his seedy Soho boardinghouse. Then a girl friend introduced her to a U.S. Air Force sergeant. "Night after night we whooped it up with the Yanks," recalls the friend. "They were twelve very gay months." But Christine got pregnant, gave birth prematurely to a son she called Peter. The infant died six days later. Christine was just...
...point where its gross national product has risen an average of 11% annually over the past five years, and its dollar surplus is almost an embarrassment. Twice married but now a widower, Eshkol has four daughters, one of whom teaches dancing in Jerusalem, while another is a sergeant in the Israeli army. His new Cabinet strongly resembles Ben-Gurion's old one, and it is unlikely there will be any radical changes in foreign or domestic policy. A far more adaptable man than Ben-Gurion, Eshkol will probably govern more through compromise than by fiat...
...darkened street outside, the strangers' spokesman suddenly dropped his bundle. He stooped and straightened up with a blazing submachine gun. Civil Guard Sergeant Aquilino Sam Jara fell dead. Other guardsmen returned the fire, dropping two of the bearded strangers as the other five fled in the darkness. In the days that followed, all of the intruders were killed or captured. One of those who lay dead was Poet Javier Heraud Perez...
...show its displeasure, sought to maintain a hands-off attitude and refused even to participate in the OAS fact-finding mission. But the U.S. finds it harder and harder to ignore Duvalier. A noise bomb exploded in front of the U.S. embassy; the wife of a U.S. Marine sergeant was hauled into a police station for 2½ hours of questioning; Robert Hill, embassy first secretary, was stopped and searched at gunpoint by Duvalier's Tonton Macoute, a kind of disorderly people's thuggery. Three times during the week, U.S. Ambassador Raymond L. Thurston protested to the Haitian...