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Hottest rumor of the week followed the arrival one sultry forenoon of two planeloads of U.N. Italian crewmen who had ferried in a shipment of U.N. scout cars for Kindu's Malayan garrison. "Belgian paratroops!" cried Gizenga's men as they hopped into trucks for the dash to the airport. Bursting into the nearby Malayan officers' mess, where the 13 Italian flyers were having lunch, the Congolese soldiers grabbed the "Belgian" crewmen and hustled them off to a jail near town. Two Italians shouted their protests in French as they waved U.N. identity cards. "Ah, Flemish!" cried...
...tribesmen after he escaped from a farmhouse jail. One witness quoted by the commission swore that Tshombe's Interior Minister Godefroid Munongo himself, confronting the prisoner in Elisabethville, took the bayonet from a soldier's rifle and plunged it into Lumumba's chest, then let a Belgian officer named Ruvs finish off the victim with a bullet in the head. The body was then supposedly taken to a refrigerator in a nearby laboratory and later buried at a still undisclosed place. But in a different version, the evidence points to another Belgian, one Colonel Huyghe...
...reasonable prices. For Central European cooking and continental atmosphere, the Viennese Lantern (72nd between Second and Third Ave.) may be recommended. Pic n' Pac (on Lexington between 57th and 58th) is not, as the name suggests, a take-out chicken place, but a French restaurant with a very fine Belgian chef and about the only spot in New York where one can order cous cous...
...partisan backing. President Kennedy endorses the project and persuaded Lodge to take the post; U.S. representatives on the institute's board of governors include U.N. Ambassador Adlai Stevenson and former Secretary of State Christian Herter. Among distinguished European members are its chairman, Paul van Zeeland, a former Belgian Prime Minister; Antoine Pinay, a former French Prime Minister; and Paul-Henri Spaak, former NATO Secretary-General. On an initial budget of $350.000, contributed mainly by in dividuals, foundations, industry and trade unions, the institute will carry out research, sponsor conferences, act as an information clearinghouse. Among the institute...
Died. Louis Rwagasore, 31. Belgian-baiting Crown Prince and newly elected Premier of Urundi, southern half of the trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi, which is scheduled for independence in 1962; of an assassin's bullet; in Usumbura, Urundi...