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...Paris, Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak evoked it anew. The time has come, he urged, for the six nations of the Common Market to create new political institutions of cooperation atop the thriving economic cohesiveness the Common Market has already achieved. Spaak made plain that although a supranational, federal United States of Europe remained the ultimate goal, his plan represented a lesser aim: a confederal unity leaving each of the Six a nation sovereign and intact...
...traitor to Africa's cause, and that the Congo's crisis was essentially an ideological battle between patriots and traitors. Not so, declared Tshombe during five days of debate, insisting that the real problem was the complete breakdown of law and order that followed the Belgian departure in 1960-which the Communists have been able to turn to their advantage...
...think I want to go?" muttered Joe. "A man in the curtain business should lose money to go to the fair?" Joe tried the fondue bourguignonne at the Swiss pavilion, sent it back for chicken instead, was even less impressed when they made Art honorary mayor of the Belgian Village. "Who wants to be mayor of an empty village?" he wanted to know...
...those on a hamburger budget, most foreign pavilions have food stands selling specialties of their country at hamburger prices. The United Arab Republic serves falafel (50?), a bean feast that tastes like a spicy meat sandwich. Morocco serves mint tea and pastry ($1) in carpeted tents. Try the Belgian Village's crepe-suzette shop where a Grand Marniered pancake costs 75?, or India's chicken pakora and clay-oven-baked bread (45?) served on the lawn by a turbaned chef. International Plaza, a noisy cluster of small shops and food stands, offers a culinary Cook's Tour...
...Tshombe inspected the ravaged city, he grew so emotional that at one point he stopped to embrace a Belgian priest who had survived the ordeal. He also gathered some much-needed evidence to present to the Organization of African Unity at its emergency Congo conference in Addis Ababa. To reply to the inevitable demand that he get rid of his white mercenary troops, Tshombe needed solid proof that the rebels were indeed bad medicine for the Congo. At Albertville, he picked up at least three valuable exhibits: a series of photographs showing the rebels executing leading citizens, a 22-year...