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...darkest days of World War I, about the only consolation that fell to the Belgians was the capture in Africa of two small and scenically beautiful German territories on the eastern border of the vast Belgian Congo. Thereafter, first under a League of Nations mandate and then under the U.N., Belgium continued to rule Ruanda and Urundi through a master tribe of willowy African giants named the Watutsis. The Watutsis had been for four centuries the lords of the Land of the Mountains of the Moon, and there seemed little reason why they should not continue...
...tortured," he cried. "But when necessary, we execute them." The crowd of peasants and union members, released from work for the day and trucked in from outlying provinces for the show, screamed its delight. At the appearance of Fidel himself, who landed in a helicopter carrying a new Belgian rifle (one of 24,000 he recently bought for his troops), the mob chanted for eight solid minutes...
...herd of cows. The delegate representing the haL'-square-mile domain of Prince Rainier and Princess Grace was Monaco's commissioner general of tourism, Gabriel Olivier, who arrived with a secretary and a head cold. San Marino, a landlocked mountain peak in northeastern Italy, sent a Belgian lawyer and musicologist who also serves as San Marino's consul general to Belgium and Liechtenstein. "They couldn't spare anyone from San Marino," explained Baron von Fab-Fein, "because of the political problems there. The Communist opposition has been sentenced to ten years in jail. How ridiculous...
...ambassadors, corporate presidents. He is constantly on the alert for the clue that will tell him where to find a potential customer, where to make a big new loan. His door is never closed to those who want to see him. In a recent week he met with the Belgian ambassador and the finance minister of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, played host to several distinguished British bankers, received half a dozen officers of corresponding banks. One customer summed him up: "Quick, pleasant, brilliant...
Armstrong Circle Theater (CBS, 10-11 p.m.).-A documentary drama, 35 Rue du Marche, recalls the devotion of a Belgian priest, Nobel Prizewinning Dominique Georges Henri Pire, to his self-imoosed task: providing homes for European D.P.s...