Word: josephs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most troublesome enemy of Congo President Joseph Mobutu is Moise Tshombe, 47, the wily pro-Western politician who ran copper-rich Katanga as a secessionist state in the early 1960s, later served for 15 months as the Con o's Premier, and still commands wide support in the country. After Mobutu seized power in a bloodless army-backed coup 21 months ago, he forced Tshombe into permanent exile, later had him sentenced to death in absentia for high treason. Mobutu sees the hand of Tshombe in every disturbance in the Congo, is convinced that he is plotting a comeback...
...white mercenary force that normally supports Mobutu suddenly switched sides and seized the city. Within hours, 200 additional mercenaries landed in Kisangani, probably from airports in Portuguese Angola. In the Congo border city of Bukuva, a force of European residents under the command of a rich Belgian planter named Joseph Schramm led remnants of Tshombe's old Katanga constabulary in attacks on the local army garrison...
Regular features include acerbic book reviews by Malcolm Muggeridge, pedestrian travel notes by Richard Joseph, political commentary by Dwight Macdonald, a music column by Martin Mayer. Sprinkled throughout are a few of the oldfashioned, full-page cartoons of yesteryear's Esquire...
...election this fall should revolve around the split in the Cambridge Civic Association over the election of Joseph A. DeGuglielmo as city manager. The CCA-endorsed council members split down the middle in the December 1965 vote with former mayor Edward A. Crane '35 and Councillor Thomas H. D. Mahoney against DeGuglielmo. Councillor Thomas Coates and Councillor Mrs. Cornelia Wheeler voting...
...Loeb's Crime and Punishment is a collection of scenes and not a play. Director Joseph Everingham has worked with Marcel Dubois' adaptation of Dostoevsyk's novel (a fact which the Loeb program is peculiarly reticent to acknowledge. One hopes they've paid some royalties). Scenes and characters are plucked out of the novel, told somewhat arbitrarily to line up acts, and sent out to do their paces...