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...original film was of combat at Bau Me. Though hardly another My Lai, the action included one gruesome incident. A South Vietnamese soldier pulled a knife from the side of a prostrate prisoner and then plunged it back into his bare stomach. Said Cronkite: "For reasons not entirely clear, the White House has engaged in an undercover campaign to discredit CBS News by alleging that the story was faked. This has been done by prompting receptive reporters and columnists to publish White House and Pentagon suspicions...
...more serious form of entertainment is a government-produced two-reel film being shown in moviehouses, which explains to citizens how to bau di (vote). Those who are not already on the electoral rolls are urged to register and to file complaints if their names are left off local voting lists. Citizens are told how to cast ballots; for the benefit of illiterates, candidates will be identified by such symbols as water buffaloes and lotus flowers. The narrator even offers advice on sizing up the more than 540 aspirants running for the 117-member assembly: "Let us question the candidates...
AFRICAN CONCERT (Philips) is sung by the Troubadours of Belgium's King Bau-douin-45 Congolese drummers and singers between the ages of nine and 14, who earned the right to their title by delighting the King with a performance of their songs during his 1956 visit to the Congo. Their earlier recording of Luba folk songs and a Mass won them a large international audience. Somehow their leader, Franciscan Father Guido Haazen, makes them sing together with precision and yet seem to be blithely improvising. Theirs are songs for working, praying, playing and dancing. One, sung in Swahili...
...insurance company in Europe. Labor's proudest possession is one of the world's few union-owned banks, the Frankfurt-based Bank fur Gemeinwirtschaft, which lately has been engaged in the highly capitalistic practice of gobbling up competitors: it has just bought control of Cologne's Bau- und Handelsbank and Frankfurt's Investitions-und Handelsbank...
Nazis kept the 259 paintings in the Führer-bau of Munich for the sole reason of pleasing Hitler whenever he visited the city. When the end came, and the SS guards had fled . . . the people from the neighborhood, joined by D.P.s and liberated inmates of the Dachau camp, stormed the party buildings in search of scarce items. When all the food and liquor, and much of the furniture, had been carted off, they broke into the air-raid cellars where the paintings were stored, climbing over stacks of Panzerfaust grenades...