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In the wake of Patrice Lumumba's murder, Kalonji's memory raced back to the days last fall when Lumumba ordered an assault on Kalonji's Baluba country, where his troops pillaged, raped and murdered at such a rate that Dag Hammarskjold himself called it genocide. Suddenly...
Contented Hussy. The novel, catching some of the steppe-wide sweep of his epic And Quiet Flows the Don (1934), brims with Sholokhov's vast love of Russia and all Russians, Red or White, workers or shirkers. When an anti-Communist is shot dead, a Communist leader muses. "He...
Dick Nixon's careful words sent political Ouija boards twitching madly. There was no doubt that he could have either the 1962 gubernatorial or the 1964 presidential nomination for the asking-and some Washington sources wondered whether he could refuse a draft for a second race against Kennedy in...
If the "hundred days" is taken seriously, the new term will bring not an effective effort by Council members to exert its persuasive powers as a pressure group but nebulous and seldom fulfilled plans for Council-sponsored extra activities. Clearly public seminars, week-long forums on international affairs, and politically...
The horror talk, intended to terrorize, only increased the tension across Cuba. In Havana, 40 black-clad women marched in silent funeral-like procession on the presidential palace carrying the Cuban flag and a banner reading CEASE EXECUTION OF OUR SONS. A mob gathered to shout insults at the marchers...