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...troops entered the rebel headquarters near Lumumba Square, a black hand was spotted reaching from a closet to clo& the door. A Belgian opened up with his automatic rifle. In the headquarters alone, 25 rebels-mostly unarmed, minor political types -were sprayed with rifle fire as they hid under beds, beneath the kitchen table, and in wardrobes, which toppled like tipped coffins as their occupants died. Outside, Tshombe's tough Katangese gendarmes hunted down Simbas...
...Going." McNamara hurried back to his office and set the plans in motion. The Pentagon phoned Sharp. In turn, Sharp called the Navy's Pacific Fleet commander, Admiral Thomas H. Moorer, stationed at nearby Makalapa Naval Base, told him: "We're going to clo it." Orders crackled through the Pacific as units of the Seventh Fleet were alerted. The carrier Constellation moved out of Hong Kong-about 500 miles from the Tonkin bases-with instructions to join the Ticonderoga as quickly as possible...
...voting time, Virginians Harry Byrd and Willis Robertson, North Carolina's B. Everett Jordan and Arkansas' John McClellan simply stayed away. Explained McClellan later: "I would never vote for cloture, but I wasn't going to help those people [the Morse band]." Similarly, such anti-clo-ture Senators as West Virginia's Robert Byrd, Nevada's Howard Cannon and North Carolina's Sam Ervin delayed their appearance, recorded their no votes only after cloture was assured...
...divided into two rival camps yesterday in a convention eve tug-of-war over choosing a successor to the late CLO President Philip Murray...
Labor and management will reach "a stable industrial relationship" on their own "unless the so called statesmen in Washington gum up the works," it was predicted last night by Clinton S. Golden at the law School Forum in Sanders Theater. Golden, long a top policy maker in the CLO and now counsellor to the United Steelworkers, shared the platform with Leo Wolman, professor of labor relations at Columbia, in discussing the topic. "The Causes of Industrial Strikes...