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Morocco's most troublesome political exile, Mehdi ben Barka, 45, flew into Paris from Geneva a fortnight ago and made a date for lunch at a Left Bank restaurant with some friends. He never showed up there or any place else...
Totally Unfounded. Curious and moving testimony on black Africa's behalf was delivered fortnight ago when Lord Delamere, the very symbol of the colonial era in Kenya, tried to bring a delegation of white
...King of Burundi, Mwami Mwambutsa IV, does not take kindly to rebels. Fortnight ago, after crushing attempts to overthrow the Watutsi monarchy and kill him and his Prime Minister, the Mwami had 34 of the conspirators-all members of the Bahutu tribe-marched into the sport stadium and executed by a firing squad (TIME, Oct. 29). Another batch of Bahutu politicians was hustled off to jail on charges of complicity in the plot. Last week ten of them, including Emile Bucumi, President of the country's National Assembly, and Gervais Nyangoma, former ambassador to the U.N., were also taken...
...Fortnight ago, everything was ready. Hoare's plan was to send a diversionary column of 100 mercenaries under Major Alastair Wicks up the road from Albertville in the south while his main assault force-160 men-stormed ashore from an "invasion fleet" composed of one ancient gunboat, the lake steamer Urundi, two barges and five patrol boats. His code name for the mission was "Operation Banzai...
...question around. Were the correspondents afraid? Back came a thunderous "Yes!" So was the Pentagon. The company would put on six performances in the next ten days in the war area, but the exact locales and curtain times were kept secret. From Viet Nam, the troupe will play a fortnight for troops in Korea and Okinawa. "After that," said Merrick last week, "we go to London-for money...