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...dangerously close to where it all began during the first bloody months of independence only 15 months ago. Preparing for a possible new round of civil war, U.N. forces got their first shipment of eight jets (from Sweden and Ethiopia) last week, and one Congolese Cabinet officer bought a bulletproof vest from a discreet St. James's tailor in London...
East German cameramen, looking for good propaganda shots of warlike Westerners, got a lensful last week. Hurrying up the Friedrichstrasse, they photographed a mob of armed U.S. soldiers, some wearing bulletproof vests, swarming on the East-West line. The importance of the American mission was emphasized by the presence of two colonels, one light colonel, a major, a captain, two lieutenants, several Jeep-mounted machine guns, a Jeep-mounted 106-mm. recoilless rifle. Could this be the real thing? Not exactly. In the middle of the armed mob was old Veni Vidi Video himself-Jack Paar...
...long line of hole-in-the-wall shops. From the sidewalks rises a babble, mostly in the English peculiar to New York, but also in Russian, German, Yiddish, Hungarian, Flemish and Dutch. Plainclothesmen unobtrusively roam the block, and inside the buildings armed guards watch passers-by through bulletproof windows. But for all its crowded and wary atmosphere, Manhattan's West 47th Street is the most sparkling street in town because it is the hub of the U.S.'s $500 million annual diamond market...
Scolded smartly by Nasser's United Arab Republic for exploding "a foolish smoke bomb," even Kassem started acting as if his invasion threat had been a desert mirage. "Peaceful means," he announced blandly in Baghdad, "will prevail over tanks and planes." Hopping into his bulletproof Russian Zim limousine, Kassem made a jovial, half-hour appearance at U.S. Ambassador John Jernegan's Independence Day reception, where he was escorted inside by ten U.S. marines and ten of his own Czech-armed bodyguards. Seemingly oblivious of his scathing attacks on "imperialist" Britain, Kassem deadpanned: "Our relations with Britain are stronger...
This week ex-Nazi Eichmann goes on trial charged with arranging the murder of 6,000,000 Jews during World War II. Each day, for months on end, he will be led down a guarded back stairway to take his seat in the bulletproof glass cage that surrounds the defendant's chair, listening through a headset, speaking through a microphone. At Eichmann's left will be the three Israeli judges who will decide his fate. In the amphitheater at his right will be the world's press, TV and radio correspondents. The latter clearly were the more...