Word: chieftains
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...transport, the French are holding out for a fifty-fifty split of the contract, while the Germans argue that they have ordered more of the planes and should get more of the production. Right now the tanks of four nations are facing each other across battle lines: the British Chieftain, the West German Leopard, the French AMX30 and the U.S. M60. The French, whose armaments salesmen are trying hardest, have sold many of their light AMX13 tanks, but are having trouble with the newer AMX30; it has failed to win a clear military endorsement over the Leopard, which Germany...
...gathered some 200 mercenaries. Early arrivals had already gone into action against the rebels-and lost. Led by two South African officers, a force of 35 mercenaries and 50 Katanga gendarmes attempted a daring, two-front commando raid on Albertville to rescue 140 European hostages held by Rebel Chieftain Gaston...
Died. Maurice Thorez, 64, longtime French Communist chieftain, a coal miner turned professional revolutionary, who took control of the party as secretary general in 1934, ran it as a mirror of the Kremlin, slavishly devoted first to Stalin, then to Khrushchev, seeing it grow to nearly 1,000,000 members after World War II only to decline rapidly (current membership: 240,000) in the face of European prosperity, until, suffering from chronic ill health, he "elevated" himself to president last May, leaving everyday tactics to another man; of an apparent heart attack aboard a Russian ship traveling to Yalta...
Born. To Anthony Quinn, 49, swarthy cinemactor last seen as the swaggering Arab chieftain in Lawrence of Arabia, and Jolanda Addolori, 29, blonde, blue-blooded Venetian fashion designer: their second child, second son; in Rome. Quinn remains officially married to the former Katherine de Mille (adopted daughter of the late Cecil B.), mother of his first four children...
...proud of you. Come whenever you can," beamed Liberian Ambassador Christie W. Doe. "Thank you, sir," answered the pride of Louisville. "I have longed to go back home to Liberia." Cassius' eyes bugged at the sight of an African delegate carrying the ornately carved stick of a tribal chieftain. "Man," breathed Cassius, pointing to the stick, "I got to get me one of those...