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...week of triumph for the Congo's professionals. In a freelance foray, a band of 14 white mercenaries blithely recaptured the strategic Congo River port of Lisala, despite orders from the timorous Congolese army high command not to overextend their supply lines. The mercenaries - mostly Southern Rhodesians - cut down 160 of the 3,000 well-armed rebel defenders, had to drive their Jeeps over mounds of rebel dead to enter the Moyen Congo provincial capital. Another mercenary band took back the North Katanga town of Kongolo, found that, as usual, the rebels had slaughtered the whole "intellectual" population...
...Cuban exiles are quick to cheer any small foray in their lopsided fight against Fidel Castro. But last week there was one blazing action in the waters off Cuba for which no one wanted to claim responsibility. It involved the 1,600-ton Spanish freighter Sierra Aranzazu, some 40 miles northwest of Great Tnagua Island in the Bahamas, bound for Havana with a cargo of garlic, cognac, chicken coops and plows...
...most significant of these political civil rights groups to emerge over the summer is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Curtis Hessler worked on the initial political foray of the MFDP out of Mississippi in Washington and Atlantic City and found the party occasionally naive, often disorganized. His careful analysis of the lobbying efforts of the FDP leading up to the convention is a remarkable story, one that could not have occured five years...
...most significant of these political civil rights groups to emerge over the summer is the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party. Curtis Hessler worked on the initial political foray of the MFDP out of Mississippi in Washington and Atlantic City and found the party occasionally naive, often disorganized. His careful analysis of the lobbying efforts of the FDP leading up to the convention is a remarkable story, one that could not have occured five years...
Richard Condon's apocalyptic pocketa-pocketa has produced a resplendent collection of giants, ogres and drowsy princesses, all flimsily disguised as people. They reappear in this grim foray into Hitler-corrupted Germany, but the author of The Manchurian Candidate has turned from dismayed humor to dismaying homily. Condon's current princess is an enormously wealthy, unbelievably beautiful Frenchwoman; though Jewish, she is married to a monocle-twirling Prussian general who cannot see the evil of Hitler until their adored child dies in a Jewish concentration camp. They retaliate by consigning the guilty SS officer to a grisly fate...