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...yellow scarves and flashing bush knives had figured in every Congolese conflict since the Tshombe secession of 1960. Finally there was ex-General Mobutu's own Armee Nationale Congolaise, inefficient as fighters but at least loyal to his government. Fearful of disarming or disbanding the "Kats," who might stir up trouble back at home in Katanga, Mobutu stationed them alongside A.N.C. units in Stanleyville, 400 miles away, where a hostile population could not easily be aroused...
...hant, whose findings caused something of a stir in France when they were publicized recently in the Paris daily Le Monde, bases his conclusion on a study of both Roman historical references to crucifixions and reports by Nazi prison-camp survivors who saw the grisly method of killing carried out during World War II. Nailed to the cross by wrists and ankles, the victim, in a desperate struggle for breath, alternately shifted his weight from arms to legs until he slumped down utterly exhausted. With the body weight resting on the arms, the diaphragm could no longer expel carbon dioxide...
...which are opposing a bill, now in a Senate subcommittee, that would put stiffer federal limits on the import and sale of firearms. Bakal's work seems certain to become one of the most widely debated books of the year. The publisher, hoping that it will stir as much commotion as Silent Spring, Rachel Carson's polemic against insecticides, likes to call it Silent Springfield...
Businessmen, from chief executives to chief clerks, fly thousands of miles as casually as they once drove 50. Politicians and bureaucrats, professors and diplomats use the new mobility to solve problems, stir decisions, win accords more quickly. Industrial complexes, hotels, office buildings and even nests of nightclubs have sprung up around airports, just as cities grew around railroad terminals in the 19th century. Some affluent couples whisk from Washington to New York, or Detroit to Chicago, just for dinner and a show. Youngsters pack airline counters on weekends, asking for seats to any place that swings...
...packed like cattle into trains; here were Nazi execution squads shooting down rows of naked men, women and children, who fell writhing into trenches that they themselves had dug; here were literally thousands of corpses being bulldozed into mass graves. Suddenly, in the darkened room, Prosecutor Hausner heard Eichmann stir. Hausner wondered if the ice-cold technician of the final solution was objecting to the evidence in the film-or was he showing remorse at last...