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...thumbing was not always easy. Twelve years ago the Russians launched a determined effort to wipe out the rebellious Mohammedans in Sinkiang. Some 10,000 Kazaks were driven out of Barkol, high in the northeast. They fled southward. Some made their way across the frozen Himalayas to India. Some stayed to fight under the leadership of a tribal chieftain named Osman Bator who, singlehanded and armed only with outmoded equipment from China's Nationalists, declared war on the whole Soviet Union...
...book a man might have written for himself and his friends, random recollections never meant for a critical eye. But "Doc" Williams has always written for himself. Of a critic who once doubted the worth of his poetry, he wrote: "To hell with him . . . Tell him to go wipe his nose...
Last week, his greatest adversary eliminated, the Mufti schemed to wipe out his adversary's country itself. He met secretly in Cairo's Semiramis Hotel with the Foreign Ministers of Egypt and Saudi Arabia, both oldtime opponents of Abdullah and the British. They agreed on a plan to tack Jordan on to a Greater Syria. In this way they would put a finish...
...policy: "Our aims in Korea are just as clear and just as simple as the things for which we fought in the American Revolution. We did not fight that war to drive the British out of the North American continent ... to destroy the military power of England, or to wipe out the British Empire. We fought it for the simple, limited aim of securing the right to be free . . . We are not fighting [in Korea] ... to conquer China, or to destroy...
...State Council of well-meaning but pusillanimous Sultan Abdul Mejid. A sternly upright and able young man with compassionate and liberal convictions, Midhat was soon serving as a trouble-shooter in one tense corner after another of the sprawling Ottoman empire. His determined efforts to abolish slave labor, wipe out anti-Christian discrimination and establish schools and colleges went far to pacify Turkey's perennially rebellious Balkan provinces and to infuriate the Russians, who dreamed of a Balkan empire all their...