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...Rhodesia, various sects-such as the Watchmen, the Sacred Heart of Jesus Lumpa Church, the Church of God, the Bantu National Church-have broken away from the mission churches and are making considerable headway. One of the most successful new prophets is one Mister Wilson "Good," known as "Jesus"' to his followers, who wears a white robe and rides an ass instead of Rhodesia's customary bicycle...
...transport carried an abnormally large crew of 19. Six hours later. New York Manager Joseph Klein went to the airport, had the plane fueled up and cleared for departure to "Dakar, Rome and further destination pending orders from El Al headquarters." Shortly after midnight, as a couple of sleepy watchmen looked on, Klein dispatched the plane himself, and in effect stranded the Israeli delegation. Had the Britannia's 19-man crew carried the captured war criminal with them? Israeli officials denied it, but three days later Eichmann appeared in handcuffs before a Jaffa court, said firmly: "I am Adolf...
...high mountain pass into Spain. Francisco Sabater had made the trip a hundred times before, and as always, he expected to arrive unannounced. But someone in France had talked, and Spanish policemen from Barcelona to the border-the "state troopers" of the Guardia Civil, city detectives, even village watchmen-were on the alert for him. For 20 years, Sabater had defied capture; for ten years he had ranked as Franco Spain's most wanted criminal...
Formosa. When Clerk Tsai Yung-ting awoke at 2 a.m., the rain had been falling for hours on the sleeping coastal village of Houlung. Too late, he rushed down to the sea wall-to find the dike watchmen asleep and the water pouring through. By the time he got back to rouse the sleeping village, the torrent was already waisthigh. That night Tsai and 29 others of Houlung's 100 people died...
...little of them. His days were spent with monkish tutors, in learning the Tantric texts of Lamaism and the complex religious ceremonials. At night he went to sleep in the enormous, fortresslike Potala, and could hear the palace gates close harshly and the ringing shouts of the watchmen as they marched through the long, twisting corridors. Without playmates or attending parents, the Dalai Lama matured early, and at 14 he visited Lhasa's great monasteries of Drepung and Sera to engage in religious disputation with their learned abbots. This was a critical moment, for upon his intelligence and agility...