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Like a tortoise shell on Asia's back, Afghanistan lies athwart the spiny Hindu Kush mountains, sloping northward to the Oxus River and Russia, eastward to the Khyber Pass. Perhaps no land has been so trodden upon by history and yet kept its independence. Darius, Alexander, Genghis Khan, Tamerlane, Babur all invaded it. In the 19th century the British Empire, following a northwesterly course, approached the Hindu Kush and southward-marching Russians. In the end, Britain and the Czars, fearful of what might happen if their armies met, agreed to keep Afghanistan as a buffer state...
...Senator Harry Byrd, who was not named by Mitchell. Said Byrd: "A delegate to the national convention owes his allegiance to his state . . . Mitchell's position is that a delegate must surrender his convictions as the representative of his party in the state if his convictions are trodden underfoot by a majority of the national convention. This, in spite of the fact that the convictions of those he used to illustrate his position were well known to the Democrats of their states before they were selected as delegates in 1952. His view of the right and obligation...
Patrick F. Sullivan of the police arrested Duane when he recognized him as a suspect wanted by the Cambridge force. After taking him to Yard headquarters at 22 Dunster St., Sullivan turned Duane over to detectives James F. Murphy and William F. Trodden of the Cambridge police department...
...only Franco bombs and bullets ever kill women and children, only Franco soldiers ever murder their prisoners, only the Franco side ever lies. Frequently, Author Bowers sounds more like a pamphleteer than a competent historian, e.g., "It is ironical that the diplomatic representative of every nation soon to be trodden neath the iron heel of Hitler was openly smiling on the totalitarian crusade against democracy in Spain." Bowers writes much better when he is telling of his prewar rambles around the Spain he loved so well: Holy Week in Seville, wine-tasting in Jerez de la Frontera, a fiesta...
...thirteen years on the Cambridge police force, Trodden was so clean even the racketeers respected him. Last year, he was active in exposing and defeating one of the grimier of the State's politicos, former Attorney General Frank Kelly. For this, Trodden was made chief of the criminal division in the new Attorney General's office. Just two weeks ago, he made headlines by leading raids on dens in Chelsea and Fall River which netted almost 100 gamblers...