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...last 21 months of the Eisenhower Administration, there were too many crises to permit any bold initiatives in Washington's dealings with either allies or foes. Soviet pressure on Berlin was a constant threat. Relations with Castro's Cuba continued to deteriorate. Laos tottered, the Congo fell apart, and Gary Powers' spy plane crashed on Soviet soil. With the U-2 fell whatever hopes Herter still held for the Paris summit conference. When he left office, one aide recalls, he was "an unhappy...
After Disney died last week, thousands of visitors poured through the gates of Disneyland as usual to drink in the fantasies that he had manufactured for them. Some went galumphing through the sparkling air atop elephants, others drifted down the Congo, past the snapping jaws of crocodiles and the whalelike surfacing of rhinos. Birds and flowers sang in one enchanted room; a land-fast 80-ft. rocket took off for the moon in simulated flight. Yet in all the gaiety and glare, in the whomp of bands and the bray of a calliope, only one elegiac sign reminded pleasure seekers...
While President Mobutu celebrated the first anniversary of his military regime in the Congo last week, everyone showed a special interest in his highest-ranking official guest, King Ntare V, 19, of neighboring Burundi. At a round of parties, guests wondered openly how the shy boy King would fare in Maryland-sized, blood-torn Burundi, from which he only last July ousted his own royal father...
...would be treated "as a criminal." No difference. Ntare could find little support for any comeback attempt. Mobutu offered his sympathy, but was not about to do more. An ex-King at an age when he still has time to pick a less perilous career, Ntare sadly abandoned the Congo and headed off for Europe...
...just price" would compare with the London rate (currently 53?) will probably not be known until next May, when details of the Frei-Kaunda agreement are to be worked out at another meeting-this one in Zambia. Just to make sure that the policies stick, Peru and the Congo will be invited to join the cartel, and thereby boost its control to 75% of the market...