Word: communique
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...week's end, there was still no comrades-united communiqué. Perhaps one could yet be agreed upon. But the Communist world was faced with the co existence of two truths-one in Moscow and one in Peking-and any pretense to "monolithic solidarity" was becoming more and more a mere...
...Mobutu. A few days later a dramatic reconciliation was arranged between Léopoldville and the long-rebellious province of Katanga. Three representatives of the Mobutu-Kasavubu regime flew to the Katanga capital of Elisabethville where they sat down with Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and issued a communiqué that for the first time promised a joint solution of the Congo's "internal problems," to be worked out next month at a round-table conference between the central government, Tshombe and other dissident provincial leaders...
...Mountains, unloaded their cargo of French paratroopers. In the narrow valleys below, French infantry sweated and scrambled their way up the rocky slopes. Trapped between land and air, units of the rebel F.L.N. fought to the death or fled into the surrounding oak and pine forests. A French communiqué tersely announced that 300 rebels were slain...
From Fidel Castro's Armed Forces Ministry one day last week came a high-pitched communiqué. An invasion force, said the ministry, landed on the north shore of Oriente province and was engaged by the militia. In the fight Invasion Leader Armentino Feria, described as a follower of Batista Gangster Rolando Masferrer, was killed. Captured, according to the communiqué, were two of his men, plus a U.S. flag, a U.S. Army manual, a U.S. Army uniform, seven U.S. carbines and three muleloads of ammunition. The remaining invaders, totaling 24 men, escaped to the hills. Inevitably the ministry...
...answered the telephone, coped with a stream of visitors, and tried to keep his three children (aged five, three, and nine months) from crawling off with state papers. In a big, three-story, official residence near the river, bespectacled Premier Patrice Lumumba peered out curtained windows, occasionally shouted invented communiqués to passing newsmen, and cried defiance at the world. On a grassy hilltop overlooking the foaming Congo rapids, stolid President Joseph Kasavubu huddled in his modern-design palace and issued laconic statements to the effect that whatever Lumumba said...