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During the 13 months of his exile, Tshombe kept in close touch with his tough Katanga cops, paying those in Angola regularly and the boys in the bush when he could. It was well that he did, for he needs them now to stiffen the spine of the demoralized Congolese national army, which has been totally unable to quell Communist-encouraged tribal revolts in the eastern Congo. All it really takes to win a town is a long-distance telephone call. Usually when a rebel leader rings up his next target, the Congolese army contingent on hand flees before...
...invaders, possibly fewer than 50 men, landed by boat late last month on Haiti's southern coast, linked up with some two dozen sympathizers and disappeared into a rugged spine of mountains ten miles inland. When news of the landing reached Port-au-Prince, Duvalier rushed his militiamen to the area. Throughout Haiti the terror was on. Scores of suspected rebel sympathizers were rounded up and tortured; many were beaten to death. In Port-au-Prince, more than ten members of a single family-including an 18-month-old child-disappeared into Duvalier's notorious Fort Dimanche prison...
...truth, Lucien Leger, 27, looked disappointingly unlike most Parisians' spine-tingling image of I'etrangleur, the Jekyll-and-Hyde strangler who had hogged the headlines and taunted the police for 40 days. "The Machiavelli of crime," as France-Soir had dubbed him, turned out to be a colorless, bespectacled little (5 ft. 4 in., 130 Ibs.) male student nurse from the shabby suburb of Villejuif. His hobby was writing banal verse, which he set to borrowed music; he even paid to have his songs recorded and issued in a jacket flatteringly decorated with his face and name...
Orange Streamer. It was a mercy mission to save the life of Seabee Bethel McMullen of Port Hueneme, Calif., who had fallen from the second story of the McMurdo base fire station and landed so heavily that he nearly scalped himself and suffered cerebral concussion and a fractured spine. Because his legs were paralyzed, McMullen was placed in traction, and word was flashed to Washington that an immediate operation was necessary to save his life. There are no surgeons among the reduced 215-man winter staff on the icecap, and the Navy ordered a U.S. surgical team to risk...
...accommodate his 6-ft. 2-in., 230-lb. bulk. Named for the Houston surgeon who devised it in 1939 for recuperating back-fracture patients, the Foster frame is a kind of reversible bed in which the patient is immobilized between a pair of sturdy canvas slings. Besides keeping the spine rigid-which is absolutely essential during the bone-healing period-the Foster frame helps prevent the patient from getting bedsores...