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Canceled Flights. As news of mutiny, rape and chaos in the Congo poured into Brussels, Belgium's dapper Premier Gaston Eyskens at first shrugged it off with the remark: "These are the minor growing convulsions of a young nation." But as the first planeloads of refugees arrived from Brazzaville, thousands of former Belgian settlers demonstrated at the airport and nearly mobbed a Congolese politician who was on one of the planes. Shouting "A has les macaques! [Down with the apes!]," the settlers demanded army intervention in the Congo. So did Belgian newspapers, and La Libre Belgique cried: "It would...
With authority collapsing and district administrators leaving their posts in fear or exasperation, the Brussels government put its foot down. "We cannot allow it to be said that we gave the Congo its independence in a state of chaos," Premier Gaston Eyskens told Parliament. Secretly, he pulled a large part of Belgium's Liberation Division out of West Germany, airlifted it to Congo bases for use if futher trouble occurred. Tough Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, onetime prosecutor of Nazi collaborators, was installed as Minister for General Affairs in Africa and sent to the scene with full powers...
...with what it said was a sub in desolate Golfo Nuevo, 650 miles southwest of Buenos Aires, and a month later got to buy an aircraft carrier; last year it sighted another elusive submarine, got enough money from Congress to buy planes. Last week, as Navy Secretary Rear Admiral Gaston Clement was doing fiscal battle with economy-minded Economics Minister Alvaro Alsogaray, a submarine-or something-was again roiling the waters of Golfo Nuevo...
...angry Dallas newsmen outside the two-story brick house at 6116 Gaston Avenue, Edmund Barker, news director of radio-TV station KRLD, the local CBS outlet, seemed a traitor to the reportorial trade. Standing beside Barker on the front porch was gaunt, tearful Frances Spears, wife of fugitive Naturopath Robert Vernon Spears (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). When the other reporters tried to question Mrs. Spears, Barker shooed them away, ushered her back into the house, explaining: "Her kids have to have a bath." Growled one newsman contemptuously: "Are you going to give it to them...
...Promise. When France fell to the Nazis, Camus joined the Resistance in North Africa, eventually made his way to Paris. There, while working for his publisher, Gaston Gallimard, he secretly edited the Resistance newspaper Combat. On the day of liberation, Combat appeared with a Page One editorial. "Out of this dread childbirth," Camus had written, "a revolution is being born. The Paris that fights tonight intends to command tomorrow, not for power but for justice, not for politics but morality." For millions, that was the promise of the peace...