Word: whiles
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Symbol on a Hill. General Sheetz and his staff, who are now engaged in the first organized effort in four years to cope with Okinawa's problems, are recruiting a force of 60 to 80 planners to act as a kind of junior SCAP for Okinawa. At Naha, where...
Lucky Day. Possibly Chanis felt lucky: he had already prepared to celebrate his 58th birthday at the palace on Sunday. Possibly he counted on the fact that Remón, too, has been seriously ill with liver trouble in recent months. For a little while it seemed that his plan...
Chanis then appointed a board of four men, headed by the Minister of Government and Justice, and sent them to police headquarters to take command. While they were on the way the President telephoned Lieut. Colonel Bolivar Vallarino, Remón's second-in-command and ordered him to...
"Rebellion!" cried Chanis. "I will retain the presidency until I am killed." Vallarino sat tight. In some confusion the President asked Remón to reason with his stubborn lieutenant. Chichi Remón indignantly refused to negotiate while under arrest, so he was set free. Vallarino rushed a patrol...
When that outburst failed to clear out the unashamed newsmen, the mayor warned that "either you get out of here this afternoon or I will." While he damned all the hullabaloo as an unreasonable invasion of his privacy, the newsmen thought the mayor's coy conduct a bit unreasonable...