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LUMUMBA. The Soviet Union supported him with money and arms in the contest to take the former Belgian Congo out of the West's orbit. While the CIA supported President Moïse Tshombe of Katanga against Lumumba, it had no part in Lumumba's arrest and murder by Katanganese soldiers. He was a casualty of African tribal politics...
...French were understandably angry. Although the F-16 was clearly superior, the Mirage was a smart performer itself and had other things going for it, among them a large number of French-speaking Belgians who would be outraged at a decision to choose the F16. But not even that consideration could outweigh aggressive salesmanship by General Dynamics and the U.S. Government. In the final hours before the decision, U.S. Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger sagely offered Belgian policymakers a rationale for buying the F-16 while at the same time mollifying French-speaking voters. He gave Belgian Defense Minister Paul...
...Bonnard, whose chatty recollections make up most of the novel, is the quizzical young patronne of a marginally respectable pension just after World War II in Switzerland. Her clientele are a score of moneyed drifters whose principal interest is in living comfortably beneath their means. They include the manic Belgian mayor of B., who writes dotty memoirs on the rims of hotel towels and thinks everyone is a German spy; the curmudgeonly "Admiral," a half-deaf, near-blind British dowager who always seems to be bellowing for an elevator that never comes; and the defiantly gay Princess Bili, whose frenzied...
...votes this week on whether to remain in the Common Market. French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing has continued the Gaullist policy of not participating in NATO's military planning; indeed, he declined to appear at the summit, attending only a state dinner given by Belgian King Baudouin and a closed-door meeting with Ford...
...American dollar has been declining irregularly on world money markets for the past five years, but never in the postwar period has its value against major European currencies sunk so low for so long. Since last September, the greenback has fallen roughly 13% against the Belgian franc, Dutch guilder and West German mark, and has lost 20% of its former worth in French and Swiss francs. Last week U.S. currency fell below the level of four francs to the dollar for the first time since 1973-and the consequences of its slump were making some disturbing waves...