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...Nasser waxed indignant: "We drink tea seven days a week now: we can cut it to five. We eat meat four days; we can cut it to three. We are people of dignity, and do not accept disdain from anyone." His own tongue somewhat carried away, Egypt's strongman vowed to "cut off the tongue" of anyone who voices "words against...
Spain's General Francisco Franco allowed Argentina's General Juan Domingo Peron to settle in Madrid five years ago with only one condition: the ousted South American strongman was not to engage in politics. Peron plunged forthwith into a career of remote-control intrigue that reached a ludicrous anticlimax this month when a long-heralded attempt to return home ended in his being sent back to Spain from Rio. Last week Franco decreed that the Argentine would either have to sign a pledge within 30 days forswearing political activity or leave Spain...
...only other strongman for the Terriers is Mike Tener, who took second place in the 1000 and the mile against the Bruins with times of 2:17 and 4:26. Running against him in both events will probably be John Ogden, still somewhat weak from a blood infection that halted his training during the fall...
...time when the U.S. and other Western nations are washing their hands of Indonesia's erratic strongman, Sukarno, the alliance is clearly a case of economic necessity rather than natural affinity. Both countries have been hurt by the disruption of their once strong economic ties, and both have had to swallow national pride in an attempt to mend them...
When Mohammed Khider, the treasurer of Algeria's ruling National Liberation Front party, quarreled with Strongman Ahmed ben Bella and absconded with some $12 million in party funds earlier this year, the Algerian government naturally turned to the Swiss banks for clues. Algerian agents went to work, soon became convinced that they had traced the missing money to four numbered accounts in Geneva's Arab Commercial Bank, which is incorporated and operating under Swiss banking laws. Algiers asked the Geneva authorities to take it from there. When Arab Bank Director Zouheir Mardam refused to disclose the identity...