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...about to enter his lawyer's New York City apartment building. According to a witness, one of the men said: "C'mon, Joe, my boss wants to see you." Bonanno must have had a long wait in the outer office. Nineteen months later, wearing a tan and the gray silk suit that he vanished in, Joe Bonanno walked unannounced into New York's federal courthouse and, with a straight face, said to a judge: "I understand that the Government would like to talk...
Vice President Ky spoke to TIME in the small study of his fortified mansion inside Saigon's Tan Son Nhut airbase. On a small end table was an autographed photo of Spiro Agnew. Only when the interview was over and he was showing his visitors out did Ky make his most disturbing statement: "In South Viet Nam, you know, the use of force is constitutional." He was pointing out that President Thieu had resorted to force in 1963 as part of the conspiracy that overthrew Ngo Dinh Diem. A repeat of this episode, Ky suggested, would not be impossible...
...situation were underlined with tragedy. There was talk of a coup, and the guard around the presidential palace was reinforced. Saigon gossips began adding up the forces loyal to Vice President Ky, which are thought to include some marine, airborne and armor battalions, plus six prop-driven Skyraiders at Tan Son Nhut airbase. The U.S. command placed all American installations on alert, mainly to keep G.I.s off the streets of cities where short-lived but ugly anti-American riots had broken out last week...
Grander Suspicion. On May 25, 1969, Heyerdahl- 54 years old, lean, and tan- again put out to sea, nagged by an even grander suspicion. Reviewing 60 cultural parallels between ancient Peru and ancient Egypt (including pyramids and reed boats), Heyerdahl asked himself: It Peruvians could sail by bal sa raft to the Polynesian islands, might not the Egyptians have sailed by reed boat to Peru? Or at least from Mo rocco to Mexico...
...countries in the Far East, the Malaysian government decided to cash in on gambling as a means of raising much-needed revenue. Surprisingly, the venture provoked little criticism from Malaysia's conservative Islamic population, and the government plans to issue more casino licenses. But, as Finance Minister Tan Siew Sin puts it, such casinos will be confined "to areas that are relatively inaccessible so that the poorer sections of our community cannot patronize them even if they want...