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...from Johannesburg to Accra. Three days ago I was on the east coast of Africa, in Nairobi. To ' go from Nairobi to Accra via Johannesburg may seem like a roundabout way, but actually it's the quickest. To fly straight across would have meant hanging around the Belgian Congo for air connections. There is no good east-west trans-Africa air schedule...
...warrior was fascinated with the new .30-caliber Belgian rifle which his government had just adopted for the British army. He had one brought to his office, learned to strip and reassemble it, demonstrated to colleagues how to swing the butt and thrust the bayonet in mock combat. One bitterly cold afternoon, he bundled himself up, spent half an hour on a windswept rifle range, firing the rifle...
...Parliament, Sir Winston was in fine fettle. Laborites charged that the rifle is not as good as the newly developed British .280. Sandhurstman Churchill, "having had some contact with questions affecting rifles over the last sixty years," pointed out that the Belgian rifle had certain advantages over the .280 that less experienced M.P.s might not appreciate. "It has a butt-remember that," he rumbled. "It is very important when one has no ammunition left to have a butt on one's rifle. That does not always occur to the technician"-evoking a vision of the young Churchill swinging...
...Egypt's Deputy Premier Gamal Abdel Nasser to a torrent of insults at Cairo's fashionable opera opening, Tugay was told bluntly to get out of Egypt within 24 hours. Tugay complained again, and the grace period was extended another day. Then, with only the British and Belgian ambassadors on hand to wish him bon voyage, Dr. Tugay went aboard a plane at Cairo airport. Treating him like a common tourist, Egyptian customs inspectors made a painstaking search of the ambassador's 14 pieces of luggage, but it was too late to catch the 206,000 Egyptian...
Belgium is the latest NATO nation to dfum up trade with Russia. A Belgian shipyard signed a $19,-000,000 contract in Moscow, with government approval, for ten cargo ships (five of 3,000 tons, five of 5,000 tons), to be delivered...