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...elections was far from silent. Ngo Dinh Diem, a bachelor under a self-imposed oath of celibacy and a Roman Catholic among a predominantly Buddhist people, proclaimed South Viet Nam a republic and himself its first President. To the boom of a naval cannonade and amid a torchlight procession and fireworks, 54-year-old Diem spoke from the steps of Saigon's Independence Palace, flanked by his Cabinet, a battery of generals, two Catholic bishops and two Buddhist prelates. Said the new President: "Democ racy is not a group of texts and laws . . . It is essentially a state...
...title of Interior Minister, signed with Britain the agreement ending the long British occupation of the canal zone. (Under the agreement's gradual withdrawal clause, the British by last week had turned about half of the canal zone over to Egyptian control.) It was a momentous, street-filling, torchlight-parading triumph for the revolutionary regime, and it gave the Nasser junta fuel on which to travel for months to come. There was, however, grumbling from one sector: the Moslem Brotherhood saw betrayal of Islam in Egypt's agreement to let the British back into Suez if Turkey...
...other mornings, the muezzins chant their calls to prayer over loudspeaker-equipped minarets, to the annoyance of sleepy Christians. Last week Muled el Nebi, the birthday of the Prophet Mohammed, rolled around. Moslems festooned Beirut in palm branches and garlands of electric lights. The climax was to be a torchlight parade...
...people began converging on the road. The Communists evidently collared the whole population for miles around, peasants, coolies, children, women with babies, old people, everyone who could walk. It was raining. They worked with straw baskets, shovels, picks, bare hands. They were like ants. After dark they worked ,by torchlight, singing a strange, monotonous chant like a dirge. At midnight, we saw the lights of the first trucks coming through...
...Torchlight March...