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Somewhere, blocks away, the U.N.'s Indians, Swedes and Irish are fighting hard. But on the wide pavement outside the seedy Hotel Leopold II, no human stirs except Moise Tshombe's tough, sharpshooting paracommandos in their red berets, and the grim, seasoned, Belgian-trained Katanga regulars in their steel helmets and jungle camouflage. Fighting and dying on a daily ration of a handful of maize, they dart stealthily from corner to corner, searching grimly for a target. After four days of fighting, the pickings are slim, for their proudest boast is that not a single U.N. soldier...
...Katangese victims and not the U.N. troops who attracted the sympathy of Elisabethville's white, largely Belgian, population. Belgian women stopped wounded paracommandos and kissed their bloodstained bandages. Belgian men sniped at U.N. headquarters with rifles from their own apartments...
...foreign markets unobtrusively in cooperation with local businessmen. True to his credo, Romney will now enter the Common Market in a cooperative deal that requires no capital investment by him. Beginning next month, France's government-owned Renault auto company will start building the Rambler Classic in its Belgian plant. Major parts will be shipped from A.M.C.'s U.S. plants, but the Common Market car will have more subdued, European-style trim and will be dubbed "Rambler by Renault...
...outside a tiny inner circle knows who are the dominant stockholders in La Générale, but the persistent rumor that the Belgian Royal Family owns a major interest is reinforced by the traditional presence of the royal court's Grand Marshal on the board of auditors. The royal tie dates back to 1822, when King William I of The Netherlands founded the company to finance development projects in his scraggly Belgian province. When Belgium won independence in 1839, La Générale got the country going with loans, and half a century later King...
...Years at Yale. On the assumption that someone, somewhere, believed the story, Hallyday called a press conference shortly after his 18th birthday last spring and told the truth. He was born in Paris of a French mother and a Belgian father, and his name is Jean-Philippe Smet. After his parents separated, he was reared from age six by his aunt, wife of an American vaudeville hoofer named Lee Hallyday. With his foster parents, he traveled the world from Cairo to Mexico City, eventually joining their song and dance...