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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Instead, Premier Cyrille Adoula's government dispatched the Congolese army commander, General Joseph Mobutu, and units of red-bereted paracommandos to the police compound. Ordering his men not to shoot, Mobutu opened the camp's gate and strode in alone and unarmed to face the mutineers. Roughly he yanked the ringleaders out of the mob one by one, and demanded that they give up. With that the revolt collapsed, and Mobutu-his well-creased trousers stained with a spot of blood-ordered the mutiny's leaders stripped to their underwear and driven off to jail through...
...Stripper. To compound the fib implied in the title, Producer Jerry Wald has hauled a matron named Gypsy Rose Lee into a few scenes at the beginning of this screen version of William Inge's 1959 play, A Loss of Roses. Fortunately, Gypsy does not strip; wearisomely, neither does anyone else. But Joanne Woodward gets guillotined...
...Saigon, where the government set up a successful fortified village complex in an area that the Reds had previously controlled. Departing from the usual Communist hit-and-run tactics, a battalion of Reds attacked the hamlets under cover of darkness, drove to the edge of the U.S. military compound in the city with a grenade assault before being driven back. "It took two days for the government forces to stamp out the fire," said one U.S. official. "After that, they managed to gain the initiative, and that's what they're keeping...
...while, they liked to listen to John A. T. Galvin around San Francisco. He often regaled cocktail parties with fascinating tales of his past. Such as the time he bought a shipload of calcium compound in the Orient and made huge profits selling it to natives as a remedy for diarrhea. Or the time he cornered the Malayan tin market. Or the time he interviewed Mao Tse-tung as an adventuring reporter in China during...
...that morning, U.S. Ambassador Leon Poullada drove up to the embassy building, found President Olympio lying in a pool of blood just outside the compound. There were red finger smears on the gate, as if he had struggled to rise. As embassy aides carried the corpse into the courtyard, fat lizards scuttled away across the gravel and lounging Togolese soldiers watched silently from a nearby street corner...