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...treason" in granting Algerian independence, France's Georges Bidault, 67-twice a postwar Premier, nine times Foreign Minister-took several large steps closer to home, established residence in Belgium and promised a return to France soon. In the meantime, he vowed to say and do nothing to blight Belgian-French relations. When reporters asked if he would approach De Gaulle for an amnesty, Georges replied grandly: "I, Bidault, approach that wretch?" Besides, he said, "to have amnesty one must first have been pronounced guilty. For what it is worth, I have never been convicted...
...Huyse, a sociologist from Belgium and apparently the only non-socialist to participate in the panel, said the Belgian socialist party was plagued by the persistence of an out-dated anti-clericalinsm, and some anti-intellectualism...
PLAYHOUSE IN THE PARK, Cincinnati, Ohio, will have Belgian Playwright Michel de Ghelderode's Escurial until July 29, followed by Chekhov's Uncle Vanya, Aug. 3-26, and then Anatol, a musical by Tom Jones, Aug. 31-Sept...
According to international practice, Algeria should not surrender Tshombe to Mobutu inasmuch as he was convicted on political, not criminal, charges. Yet Boumediene is eager to improve his image in Black Africa, whose leaders almost all revile Tshombe as a "Black Judas" for protecting Belgian financial interests in the Congo and using white mercenaries to keep himself in power. The official Algerian newspaper El Moudjahid proposed establishing an "African Nürnberg" to try Tshombe...
...white mercenary force that normally supports Mobutu suddenly switched sides and seized the city. Within hours, 200 additional mercenaries landed in Kisangani, probably from airports in Portuguese Angola. In the Congo border city of Bukuva, a force of European residents under the command of a rich Belgian planter named Joseph Schramm led remnants of Tshombe's old Katanga constabulary in attacks on the local army garrison...