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...constitutional monarchy under his leadership. Genuinely popular with both the Watutsi and the Bahutu, Mwambutsa is an accomplished amateur magician who nightly performs his feats of prestidigitation as he tools around the hot spots of his capital city. Usumbura, in a white Edsel convertible, accompanied by his equally white Belgian girl friend...
...successfully threw its support behind the long suppressed Bahutu, who immediately rose up in bloody revolt against their Watutsi overlords. Although for centuries they had practiced a sort of subfeudal oppression, the Watutsi were openly backed by Russia, in and out of U.N., simply because they were vehemently anti-Belgian. But Bahutu numbers told. The Bahutu burned scores of Watutsi villages to the ground, cut scores of willowy Watutsi warriors literally down to size by slicing their legs off at the knees. Rwanda's Mwami Kigeri V fled into exile along with 142,000 supporters, and the Bahutu...
Born. To Prince Albert of Liege, 28, heir to the Belgian throne; and Princess Paola, 24: their second child, first daughter; in Brussels. Name (after Prince Albert's mother, the late Queen Astrid ) : Astrid Josephine Charlotte Fabrizia Elisabeth Paola Marie...
...doubled their duties on a variety of U.S. plastics and textiles, and also raised tariffs on some paints. The move was in frank reprisal for President Kennedy's decision last March to boost U.S. tariffs on imported carpets and glass of a variety largely produced in Belgium. The Belgians protested that Kennedy's action would mean less work for 10,000 Belgian factory hands, and Washington's offer to compensate by cutting tariffs on a still secret list of other European products was dismissed by the Common Market as inadequate...
...Belgian Bliss. Few First Ladies were more sorely needed or more swiftly accepted than Belgium's Queen Fabiola. For years, Belgians had besought their remote, unhappy King Baudouin to take a wife. Though it was in the midst of the Congo crisis that Baudouin, now 31, announced his engagement to Spanish-born Doña Fabiola de Mora y Aragón, the whole country rejoiced...