Word: sisterly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some nuns were merely beaten up with bottles or gun butts, and one was slugged with a telephone, which the Simbas apparently considered bad dawa (magic). Three were raped. One nun, Sister Maria Therese, 36, resisted, and a Simba shattered both her kneecaps with a precisely aimed rifle shot. "It was night," recalled a surviving nun. "She was losing much blood, and the Simbas wouldn't let us near her. She died early in the morning after lying alone on the street for many hours." The Simbas then locked their prisoners back in the hotel, where most were ultimately...
Anyone with a radio set-either transmitter or receiver-was considered a spy, calling in "Yankee" help against the cause. Sister Anne-Maria Merkens, mother superior of a mission hospital at Bondamba, 300 miles northwest of Stan, owned a tiny transistor radio. Simbas in leopardskins appeared in mid-September, accused the nuns of sending messages to the Americans, even though the radio was only capable of receiving signals. They returned a few weeks later, killed the mission's cows, stole its chickens and rice. On their next visit, they abducted schoolgirls aged 7 to 14, spent the night sniffing...
...next day, Nov. 11, the Simbas heard two light planes overhead," Sister Anne-Maria recalled last week: "In rushed a Simba, who with a sweep of his spear brushed the table clean. Shouting accusations that we had summoned the Americans, the Simbas attacked the priests. They hammered them mercilessly with sticks and rifle butts until nearly everyone was covered with blood and bruises. Then we were marched outside, told to strip off all our clothes, and ordered to sit down." Naked, the nuns were beaten fiercely, locked up without food and clothing for 24 hours in a small room. "Again...
...emaciated peasants of Phulpur, a district in northern India, 16 miles from Allahabad, which ever since 1952 had loyally returned the late Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru to Parliament. In last week's by-election, the empty seat was being contested by Madame Pandit, Nehru's younger sister, who had the full backing of the dominant Congress Party, and Socialist Lohia was on hand as a lifelong enemy of the Nehru family. In 1962, Lohia personally fought for the seat against Nehru and was soundly trounced. Last week he was backing a local Socialist named Saligram Jaiswal, who kept...
...case Thanksgiving wasn't enough excitement, there were two birthday parties in Jacqueline Kennedy's family last week. John-John turned four and invited a group of Manhattan preschoolers in to his Fifth Avenue home for ice cream, cake, and games. Then, with his mother and sister, he adjourned for the weekend to the family's house on Long Island, where he helped Caro line celebrate her seventh birthday with a number of her young North Shore neighbors...