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...September 1959 a seven-man French explorer-adventurer task force headed by Pierre-Dominique Gaisseau, together with 60 native bearers, began a south-to-north, coast-to-coast trek across Netherlands New Guinea from the Arafura Sea over the central barrier through a 150-mile pocket of jungle which no white man had ever charted. Seven months and 1,000 winding miles later, having logged temperatures from near freezing to as high as 132° Fahrenheit and altitudes of up to 12,000 ft., Gaisseau and his radio engineer, Herve de Maigret. staggered out to the mocking serenity...
...year ago last week Dictator Rafael Leonidas Trujillo was waylaid and slain. It took another six months for his son Ramfis to be sent packing. In the void left by 31 years of Trujillo family tyranny, few cheers greeted the seven-man Council of State that took power in the Dominican Republic last January. Its President, Rafael Bonnelly, a 57-year-old lawyer, had once been an errand boy for Trujillo. The other members include a truckline operator, two heart doctors, a businessman, a Roman Catholic priest-and one of the triggermen who killed Trujillo. The news...
...tests convinced AEC that it should set up a permanent nuclear-weapons division at Los Alamos, and Ogle became one of its seven-man experimental nucleus, known...
...reason is not hard to find. Though President Rafael Donnelly's seven-man Council of State has been installed to guide the country toward democracy, it operates under a shaky truce with the still powerful military that remains from Trujillo's time. In plain language the council is afraid to anger the trigger-happy officers by searching out the killers in their ranks. Says an official of the council: "Lots of military men are implicated. You know where we would end up if we pressed too hard...
Under the compromise, which is slated to be ratified by Congress this week. Balaguer will appoint a seven-man Council of State over which he will preside, at least in the beginning-and with the right to retain Rodriguez Echavarria as armed forces chief. All six other Council member-designates are either independents or men who turned against Trujillo. Amiama Tió, a small businessman, and Imbert, a cement plant manager who drove the assassination car, will each be represented...