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...recently. He controls only 12 of the Lower House's 137 seats (v. 36 for Lumumba), but with Belgian help might attract enough support from among the 18 other elected parties to form a coalition government. In pursuit of this scheme, Kasavubu last week flew to Brussels to dicker with Belgium's Minister of the Congo and to call on young King Baudouin, who is scheduled to open the Congo's first Parliament at the end of the month, provided the country does not explode into bloody civil war beforehand. Watching the events in Brussels with rising...
...West German] Chancellor Adenauer that God has invested Germany with the special mission of saving Europe . . . This is the rebirth of Hitler's theory of a master race . . . Vengeance is being reborn in Germany." Down on the Farm. His tour ended, all that was left was to dicker with De Gaulle at Rambouillet. While Madame de Gaulle and Nina Khrushchev visited the little Rambouillet dairy originally created as a plaything for Marie Antoinette, the husbands walked the sandy paths of the chateau grounds, plowing through the whole range of East-West problems: disarmament, Algeria, Berlin, and the future...
...principally because it offered opportunities for sensationalism. Nevertheless, the film displays an attitude toward sex that is more wholesome than the merely sniggering spirit that prevails in many a movie; and for those who can stand the straight talk, it provides a memorable exhibition of legal bicker and dicker, infight and outrage...
Scare the Guests. As the bold Brown strategists see things, Brown must, as a minimum, keep the Golden State's massive delegation in hand until the right candidate comes along, or until Brown can dicker for the vice-presidential nomination. But when they let their dreams balloon, they note that 1) the Democratic convention will be in Los Angeles, Brown's front yard, 2) the Democratic convention is threatened by deadlock. So why not California's Pat Brown for President? Brown has agreed that he would accept a draft...
...where will the $600 million bankroll come from? Ghana, which enjoys a trade surplus as the world's biggest producer of cocoa, can ante up $70 million. This month it will send a team of ministers to Washington to dicker with the World Bank and U.S. foreign-aiders, who regard Ghana as a first-rate investment risk. Says Aluminium Ltd. of Canada, which has rights to Ghana's major bauxite reserves and sees the Volta plan as an eventual certainty: "We would be interested in forming a consortium with U.S. firms to develop the project...