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...Fire!" shouted the troop commander, and the riflemen shot point-blank into the massed, unarmed students. By the time the volley ended, nine students and two bystanders had been killed; dozens were wounded (see NEWS IN PICTURES). The paraders fled. Still a mystery at week's end was the answer to the question: Who fired the fatal first shot...
...moment they stared at each other, the Russians utterly astonished by the sudden apparition of this solitary horseman, gorgeous and glittering with gold." Then, "one of the officers. Prince Radzivil, recognized Lord Cardigan-they had met in London at dinners and balls-and . . . detached a troop of Cossacks . . . to capture him alive." Lord Cardigan was in no mood to be mauled by private soldiers. Wheeling his horse, he galloped back the way he had come. Back at base, he "immediately broke into accusations of ... Nolan's insubordination...
...fierce monarchist, with a fierce mustache and a fierce tongue. Guareschi edits the brilliant satirical weekly, Candido, which pillories politicians of the center as well as those of the left. Three years ago, a Candido cartoon depicted President Einaudi (some of whose income is derived from vineyards) reviewing a troop of wine bottles. Caption: "These are the warriors of the Republic." For "vilifying" Einaudi, Guareschi drew an eight-month suspended sentence...
...against the Red army, helped the Nazis against Russia in World War II, and after the war founded a relief camp for Russian escapees. Trushnovich's NTS concentrated on planting seeds of discontent in the Soviet army of occupation in East Germany. His balloons dropped leaflets over Soviet troop areas, his agents boldly tacked up posters in East German railroad stations. Because they were in Russian, East German police left them on the walls, thinking the Russians had put them up themselves...
...Wars from here on in will be fought over ideological issues, and future prisoners can expect to be subjected to all sorts of torture ... My son is in the service, and I have told him: if ever captured, confess if you must. Don't give away positions or troop movements, but subjects such as germ warfare and the like are absurd. The facts will be brought to light later regardless of what they make you say about it. You have a gun at your head ... Be practical, and stay alive...