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...Columbus shortly after he set up his New World headquarters on Española, the Caribbean island now divided into Haiti and the Dominican Republic. Then, according to the legend, he added: "Here I will be buried." And there in 1898 his remains were enshrined in a new marble tomb in the cathedral at Santo Domingo, which is now called Ciudad Trujillo. That same year the navigator's descendants also buried his remains back in Spain in the family plot in Seville. The question ever since: Which tomb has the tibia...
...cosseted are New Zealanders by the costly welfare state of the Labor Party that most have become almost soporific. In power for 17 of the past 25 years, the Labor Party has set up a womb-to-tomb socialist program that provides baby bonuses, housing allowances, tax-paid medical care, and even off-track betting services. The islands have full employment, no poverty, but little wealth; more than 20% of the labor force is on the government payroll and nearly 50% of the population receives some sort of government pension. But tired of the controls and exorbitant costs...
...Peace Is Inevitable." An icy drizzle fell next morning as Chairman Liu stood beside Khrushchev and Soviet War Minister Rodion Malinovsky atop the Lenin-Stalin tomb to review the traditional parade through Red Square. The military parade lasted eight minutes, just long enough to flaunt a thumping train of Russian rockets, including a slim newcomer called the Silver Needle, which the Soviet press claimed was the kind that downed U.S. Pilot Francis Powers' U-2 last spring...
...Paris, President de Gaulle rode through a cheering crowd of 45,000 to lay an armistice wreath at the tomb of France's Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe. But police headed off a possible riot only by rounding up 1,900 demonstrators, and De Gaulle's old comrade in arms, Algerian-born Marshal Alphonse Juin, refused to take part in the Arc de Triomphe ceremonies. "I had to do something to protest," cried Juin, who is France's only living marshal. His gesture placed France's most influential soldier beside such disaffected army chieftains...
...Gallery of Canada. The information given to your writer and researcher has been sensitively handled and you have my thanks and congratulations. In the four-hour period one Sunday, almost three thousand people attended the exhibition, and I am told that this equals the attendance at Lenin's tomb in Moscow...