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...village, consisted of 70 regulars of the royal Laotian army, 100 home guards and 25 counter-guerrillas who are called maquis by French-educated Laotians. For 25 miles along the western bank of the Nam Ma river, there were similar garrisons under the control of battalion headquarters at Muong Het. eight miles from the Vietnamese frontier. And they were backed up by six other battalions which had been rushed to the defense of Samneua province...
...demand that something be done about Leopold spread even to the Catholic Royalist newspaper, Het Volk, which had stood gamely by him during the pre-abdication days, but now grumbled that Cabinet ministers were being humiliated and sabotaged by "someone" at the royal court. Last week Leopold summoned Premier Eyskens to Laeken palace, began by blustering that the press attack on him "has to stop!" ended by saying resignedly that "I will leave Laeken; you must find me another place to live." Leopold's preference: the 18th century Villa Belvedere, just across the street from Laeken, once (under...
...Queen's men could not make the audience seem any the more palatable. "A shame for our country," cried Amsterdam's Het Vrije Volk...
Other attractions on the U.S. Performing Arts program: the New York City Center Light Opera Company's Carousel and Wonderful Town (wrote Ghent's Het Volk: "An absolute revelation!"), and the New York City Opera's Susannah by Carlisle Floyd. Crowds also jammed the Grand Auditorium to hear Violinist Isaac Stern play three times with the Philadelphia Orchestra, turned out again when the Philadelphians and Pianist Van Cliburn played the piece that catapulted him to fame-Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto...
...Populaire, organ of France's Socialist Party, praised the Prime Ministers for establishing "an equilibrium between political and military imperatives." And in Belgium the Roman Catholic Het Volk took comfort in the thought that "the Russians will be placed face to face with clear and concrete disarmament proposals. If the Soviets refuse again, a period of painful pessimism may follow, but at least the world will know where it stands...