Word: hauteness
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...other three: Chateau Lafite-Rothschild, Chateau Margaux and Chateau Haut-Brion, which is owned by the family of U.S. Treasury Secretary Douglas Dillon...
...were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding out for as much autonomy for Katanga as he could wangle. On Washington's orders, more pressure on Tshombe was applied in Brussels, administrative headquarters of the rich Union Miniere du Haut Katanga, which provides Tshombe with most of his revenue. Said a State Department official: "We hope to work something out." By now, Moscow was getting back into the act. When U.S. Air Force planes flew live cattle, food and engineering equipment to help towns along a flooded stretch...
...question is hardly big money in Manhattan's public relations world, and that a great many Americans are pro-Katanga without any help from political pressagents.) Chief culprits in the whole mess, said Rowan, were the big Belgian-run mining complex, Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, and "financial interests" bent on maintaining Katanga as their "safe little kingdom...
...famous 1960 Round Table Conference in Brussels to discuss a future independent Congo. It was there that his colleagues first began to notice the array of white advisers who were constantly at Tshombe's elbow, passing him notes, whispering suggestions. Some were from Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the huge, Belgian-controlled corporation that mines and processes Katanga's rich veins of copper and cobalt; other advisers were from Katanga's powerful white settler group; they, like Tshombe. had a large stake in an independent, or at least partially autonomous, Katanga...
They range from Belgian teen-agers to businessmen who moonlight as soldiers; at least half a dozen Union Miniére du Haut-Katanga executives have reportedly doffed their dark business suits for camouflage outfits. One Elisabethville butcher sells meat in his shell-pocked shop all day, fights the U.N. most of the night...