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...Luftwaffe's main-line plane. The first trainer models have already been delivered, and the first 66 operational types are due from California in April. The revitalized German aircraft industry is building 210 F-1045 under license for 1961 and 1962 delivery, and a German-Belgian-Dutch consortium will supply another 364. All told, the order will cost the Bundeswehr a billion dollars, $175 million of which will be spent...
...Delhi, citing Lazarus' finger-chewing story as evidence, Jawaharlal Nehru again lectured his Parliament on the brutality of the regime headed by Congolese Strongman Colonel Joseph Mobutu. Again a check by Willie's competitors demolished his scoop: an inspection by a Belgian doctor found Lumumba under rigorous confinement in a Congolese army camp but with his fingers intact. But at week's end, despite outraged rumblings from the Congolese government, Willie Lazarus was sticking to his story. Said he: "I can't prove it, but I still believe...
Seeking to divert attention from this humiliation. Nkrumah fired off a note to U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold charging the U.S., Britain and France with supporting a Belgian effort to regain control of the Congo. Then he advised the U.N. haughtily that he had proposed to nine other African nations* the formation of an independent African military command to handle such difficult assignments in the future. Since he had not invited such unsympathetic nations as Nigeria (most populous country in Africa) or those of the French Community (except for Mali), he avoided the risk of a mass rejection; but even...
...President Kasavubu bluntly invited Nasser to withdraw the U.A.R.'s plotting Ghaleb and staff as well. Astonished at this ingratitude, Nasser turned to an old Cairo weapon of reprisal: nationalization. Since the Congo itself owns nothing in Egypt he could nationalize, he grabbed all the big Belgian companies in town (seven major firms, including the Belgian-controlled Shepheard's Hotel) on the theory that the Belgians must be whispering in Congolese ears...
...archbishop entered the three-sect Church of the Holy Sepulchre, where Greek, Armenian, and Roman Catholic priests fought for his attention. "It is very hard to compress eternity into only a few moments," said the archbishop, as the organ began pealing God Save the Queen. (The organist was a Belgian Catholic who had no idea what else was appropriate for an Anglican churchman...