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What bothers Britain most is Nasser's effort to stir up the tribes of the South Arabia Federation. Britain's claim to have exterminated South Arabia's chief rebels, colorfully called the Red Wolves of Radfan, was premature, to say the least. Since June, the Royal Air Force has flown 1,500 sorties against rebel tribesmen-devastating many of their villages as thoroughly as the Egyptians had done in Yemen. As much as anything, the British are challenging the claim of hegemony that Nasser hopes to carry to the conference table at the Arab summit meeting next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Yemen: The Forgotten War | 8/14/1964 | See Source »

...time to pick up a change of socks before hustling off to Chicago for another trial. When that one ended last week, after 90 days and 42,000 pages of testimony, Hoffa was nailed again on four counts of fraud and conspiracy. He faces up to 20 years in stir and $13,000 in fines when he is sentenced in the next few weeks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Labor: Somebody Got Him | 8/7/1964 | See Source »

...condition, then stir up riots in the hope that they will furnish a dead Negro martyr...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Place Like Home | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

Negro politicians stir passions when they point out that 80% of Harlem's businesses are owned by whites who do not live there. Most of them are Jews, and here are the sparks...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: No Place Like Home | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

...Beware of raising armies," Tsiranana warned, "for they can overthrow us. Beware of visiting African delegations that come to enjoy your hospitality and praise you to your face, but stir up insurrection behind your back." To the nervous titters of such practitioners of insurrection as Algeria's Ahmed ben Bella and Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser, he took a cut at that African holy of holies, nonalignment. "We all say we are neutral, but we all favor anybody who helps us," Tsiranana said. "If you ask me the truth, I'll say mais oui, I am allied...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Africa: Devil's Advocates | 7/31/1964 | See Source »

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