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...pistol-packing blonde ambulance driver known around town as Madame Yvette, had taken off for the Angolan border. But most of Tshombe's 2.000 bedraggled men paid heed to his plea to "cooperate with the U.N. and our Congolese brothers," dutifully stacked their arms at a nearby depot. At his yellow villa on the edge of Kolwezi, Tshombe greeted Noronha with a grin. "Nobody shot at you, I see," he cracked. Replied Noronha, throwing an arm around Tshombe's shoulders, "I have come to thank you for keeping your word...
...Saudi seaport of Jidda-the hoary political device that hints of force. And, though it was laconically denied in Washington, sources in the Middle East insist that the U.S. has agreed to a Saudi request that antiaircraft batteries and radar-control equipment be sent to the oft-bombed supply depot at Najran; this, hopefully, would have a sedative effect on Egyptian air raids inside the territory of Saudi Arabia itself...
...enterprising scoundrel who offered his services as an espionage agent to the French government. As proof of his cloak-and-dagger abilities, Schinasi genially explained that he got his start in espionage in September 1959, when he had a civilian job at the U.S. armed forces gasoline and oil depot in Fontainebleau. Needing some extra money, Schinasi had dropped into the Russian embassy in Paris and proposed that he do some moonlighting...
...Russians agreed, and paid Schinasi a total of $600 for supplying the names of all the U.S. service chiefs at Fontainebleau, a list of the petroleum products used at the depot, and information on U.S. gas masks. By July 1960, the Russians were so delighted with his work that they suggested he develop his talent at an espionage school in the Soviet Union; he cannily refused...
Looking Up. At the moment, Catoosa (pop. 638) has neither a water nor a sewage system. Most of its streets are unpaved. Many of its stores are abandoned. No passenger trains stop at the forlorn depot; no freight has been moved out since a local coal mine shut down a year or so ago. Catoosa is not even on the Arkansas, which passes 15 miles away at Tulsa. But the river at Tulsa is so impossible that engineers threw up their hands, decided to branch off the Arkansas and dredge their channel up the Verdigris River, a tributary, to Catoosa...