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...refugee from neighboring Rwanda, and thus a sworn enemy of Ngendandumwe, who happened to be a member of the Bahutu tribe. For centuries the Bahutu had served the towering Watutsi aristocrats (some measure 7 ft. or more) as cattle-tending serfs on the alpine slopes of the former Belgian colony Ruanda-Urundi. Independence, in 1962, established a tribal equality of sorts, but both Bahutu and Watutsi quickly sought more than that. A Belgian-backed coup gave the Bahutu control of the new Rwanda government, while Burundi remained under a Watutsi king, Mwami Mwambutsa...
Once the deal goes through-and negotiations with the Belgian government are well into their "final phase"-G.M. will begin building its new plant along the Antwerp waterfront, not far from the site of a Ford tractor plant. Taking advantage of Belgium's low duties on imported auto parts, G.M. will assemble its Opels from parts imported from West Germany and its Vauxhalls from parts made in its British plants. Eventually, G.M. may shift its Antwerp plant to full-scale manufacturing...
...income on upkeep. At his request. Parliament last week voted him a $160,000 raise in salary to $1,000,000 a year. To make sure that he will not be caught in such straits again, Parliament also decreed that Baudouin's wages, like those of every Belgian union man, will henceforth include an automatic cost-of-living increase...
Adoula's argument was music to the ears of those African leaders who view Tshombe as a Belgian puppet and would like nothing better than to see him ousted from power. When and if that happens, Cyrille Adoula clearly would like to pick up the pieces where he left them six months...
Died. Paul Gillet, 73, governor from 1950 to 1961 of Belgium's Société Génerale, the massive holding company that controls 60% of all Belgian industry, a shadowy figure so inaccessible (no published picture of him exists) that even Société officials had difficulty getting to him, but who broke his usual silence in 1960 to argue against independence for the Congo, considering the Congolese "not ripe" for it; after a long illness; in Brussels...