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...Rumor. Fortnight ago, several hundred Congolese army troops arrived at the Lualaba River port town of Kindu in Kivu Province, an area of the eastern Congo lightly controlled by local authorities and protected only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were...
...Punta del Este conference three months ago, every Latin American nation (except Cuba) agreed to get busy on the necessary reforms. But a fortnight ago, back from a trip through Latin America, one of the Kennedy advisers who helped shape the Alliance said sadly: "I've got to report that the Alliance is not working yet. We've got to light a gigantic bonfire under the Latino ruling classes, and we've got to do it immediately. We had expected the Latins to respond, and they promised they would, but with few exceptions [Venezuela, Colombia, El Salvador...
...Cuzco fortnight ago, he ignored the hail of stones to walk two miles from the airport to his hotel. From a balcony, he warned the Indians about Communism: "Do not believe their foreign doctrines, do not believe in their paradise." When a delegation of Communists demanded "in the name of the people" that he leave town, Beltran replied: "I question your claim of representing the people of Cuzco. Good day, gentlemen." When the Red-controlled Cuzco Workers' Federation tried to run him out of town with a 24-hour general strike, Beltran saw to it that local police...
...play with swift precision, can throw a pass accurately while on the dead run to either his left or his right. Says Coach Frank Camp, whose tough University of Louisville team was whipped, 28-13, by Memphis State: "Wright killed us with those roll-out passes to his left." Fortnight ago, while the Tigers clawed previously unbeaten Mississippi Southern, 21-7, Wright put on a sparkling one-man show. He personally directed all three scoring drives, bucked for one touchdown himself, and gained an average of 5.8 yds. every time he carried the ball. By last week, Quarterback Wright...
...Fortnight ago, Erwin D. Canham, editor of the Christian Science Monitor, took the occasion of Kennedy's impending speaking tour of the West to assess the Administration. Canham found it wanting: "The Democratic critics a year ago called the Eisenhower forces a 'do-nothing administration.' They presented themselves as men of action-apostles of courage . . . Today, both in the United States and in the allied capitals, but even more in the hostile centers of world communism, the impression prevails that the Kennedy administration shrinks from the test when the test comes." Canham's conclusion: "The Kennedy...