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Next day, two Indian Canberras swooped down for a shot at Elisabethville's central post office, a Katangese strongpoint in the heart of town, just around the corner from the Leo II. The jets were after the post office's central switchboard and telegraph machines, soon reduced the machinery to molten ruins as Katangese operators fled for their lives...
...matter of fact, is a classic example of something we might call "brand-name journalism," as opposed to the "chain-store" variety offered by the large groups. The Herald has latched onto a very good wire service, the New York Times service, and with that as its main strongpoint, has more or less given up being a newspaper at all. It runs entertainment features like puzzles and comics, a small amount of local news and sports, and acts as the middleman for the Times service and the Boston reading public...
...that the dark wooden Madonna with the Child upright in her lap appeared as if by miracle within a cave in the mountain one day ten centuries ago. First a church, then a monastery was built near the peak in her honor. The shrine became a military strongpoint in the struggle between Catalonian Christians and Moors; the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V prayed before the Black Virgin many times, and Saint Ignatius Loyola found his vocation in her presence. Today, she is the legendary protector of all Catalonia, and every devout Catalonian makes a pilgrimage to her shrine at least...
...remaining troops back from the Gaza strip and from the Egyptian forts commanding the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba. The Israelis said they would withdraw their troops if the U.N. would guarantee that Egypt would not use Gaza for a raiding base again and the forts as a strongpoint for blockading Israel's access to its port of Elath. The U.S. said that it was all a matter...
Defense Position. How strong a bastion will METO prove in the Mid-East's shifting sands? Truth is that METO is more a geographic than a military entity, more a psychological pact than a strategic strongpoint. Not including Britain, METO disposes in theory of nearly 850.-ooo men under arms. But Turkey's tough 500.000-man army and Pakistan's 200,-ooo are already committed to the free world's defenses (through NATO and SEATO). To the Middle East's defenses...