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...house the delegates, complete with four-bedroom bungalows, tennis courts, a swimming pool and even a miniature golf course. Thirty tons of food were brought in for the occasion, and stewards prepared to serve 600 bottles of imported wine a day to accompany the meals cooked by 20 imported Belgian chefs. While bands played such incongruous tunes as Marching Through Georgia, squadrons of police escorts roared down Kinshasa's boulevards all week long on their Harley-Davidson motorcycles...
...doing poorly in its U.S.-based manufacturing operations-Geneen decided to ride it especially hard, fused it under a single headquarters located in Brussels. To house the newly created ITT-Europe, a handsome building went up on Brussels' Boulevard de l'Empereur-smack in between the Belgian Socialist Party headquarters and the national unemployment office...
...director of ITT's Norwegian affiliate, and onetime Belgian Premier Paul-Henri Spaak, whose position as director of the company's Belgian subsidiary has inspired one Brussels paper to refer to him as "Paul HenriTT...
Three young Belgians who strayed into the eastern Congo recently while studying African tribal life were summarily executed only hours after their arrest by Congolese troops. A Belgian mining technician and his wife were murdered a few days later. Belgian officials barely bothered to protest. With more than 20 whites killed by Congolese soldiers since the mercenary rebellion began, Brussels has just about lost all confidence in the ability or will of Mobutu and his government to protect whites. "Sometimes," sighed a white resident of the Katanga provincial capital of Lubumbashi last week, "we feel as though this...
Died. Rene Magritte, 68, the most appealing and least pretentious of surrealist painters; of cancer; in Brussels. A short, stocky Belgian, Magritte called himself a "secret agent," alluding to the disparity between appearance and reality in both his life and art. He painted as he dressed, mostly in banker's black and grey, composing his scenes with photographic accuracy. But what impish fantasies: cigar boxes puffing smoke, a leaden sky raining tiny, bowler-hatted figures, the leaning tower of Pisa buttressed by a feather, Botticelli's Primavera superimposed on the back of a businessman's overcoat. "People...