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...eleven abstained and Nepal arrived too late to cast a ballot), the trim, businesslike lawyer-accountant accepted the gavel from Pakistan's bearded Zafrulla Khan. Then, in Spanish (he is also fluent in French and English), Sosa Rodriguez introduced himself as "a son of the native land of Sim...
Because of the shadowy origins of a great-great-grandmother, Venezuela born Simón Bolívar was considered a mestizo, and resented the second-class treatment he received at the court of King Charles IV of Spain in 1803. Returning to Latin America in 1807, he led the wars of independence that cost the Spanish throne some of its richest New World possessions and established Bolívar, a lover of fine horseflesh and handsome women, as one of the foremost machos of history...
...latest novel: To Kill a Mockingbird). Despite all the publicity, she insisted, "I am the wife of a public figure but not one in my own right." With that, the couple went into seclusion on the ranch, which is 125 miles southwest of Caracas and was once owned by Simón Bolivar. The Rockefellers picnicked on a 6,500-ft. mountain, relaxed in the white twelve-room hacienda. They were isolated from the rest of the world except for a single radiotelephone circuit. Critical Clergymen. Meanwhile, away from the ranch, there was continued criticism of the wedding, especially...
When 300 pickets tried to close down a nonunion mine in Hazard, state troopers were armed with submachine guns. The United Mine Workers disowned the roving pickets, urged everybody to calm down. That was like pleading with a rattlesnake to uncoil. The violence sim ply increased, and Kentucky's Democratic Governor Bert Combs admitted that a "dangerous situation" existed. It was likely to get worse before it got better...
...install new leaders. The Declaration of the Rights of Man, drafted by Marquis de Lafayette, proclaimed that "the principle of sovereignty resides essentially in the Nation: no body of men, no individual, can exercise authority that does not emanate expressly from it." It was this inspiration that motivated Simón Bolivar and José de San Martin in freeing the states of South America from the dead hand of colonial Spain, forged modern Germany out of a score of principalities, unified fragmented Italy with Cavour's leadership. Under this glorious banner, Irishmen and Poles and Czechs fought...