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Mulele's men, who called themselves the Jeunesse, were fired by a strange mixture of leftist dogma and African magic, which they used time and again to put the superstitious Congolese National Army to flight. With shouts of Mulele mai (Water of Mulele), they threw themselves into battle, convinced that bullets fired at them would turn to water. Eventually the rebellion collapsed, partly because the Congolese army grew somewhat more efficient, partly because the geographical isolation of Kwilu province made it impossible for Mulele to replace the bows and poisoned arrows of his followers with modern weapons. Last week...
...added Negro staffers. They are not easy to find since, as in so many other fields, too few Negroes have had training. Many stations are offering on-the-job experience to likely prospects and giving preferential treatment to black applicants. Network-level Negroes include ABC's U.N. Correspondent Mai Goode and some top local newscasters on network-affiliated stations, such as Bob Teague and Gil Noble in New York, Bill Matney and Les Brownlee in Chicago, and Mel Knox in San Francisco...
...astonishing stamina as well. Backing up Harriman will be Cyrus R. Vance, 51, until last year the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As its chief representative, Hanoi designated Xuan Thuy, 55, a veteran diplomat and journalist who retired as Foreign Minister three years ago. Supporting him will probably be Mai Van Bo, 50, the pudgy, polished former teacher who since 1961 has skillfully represented Hanoi's interests in Paris...
WHEN talks begin, Americans looking among the Vietnamese negotiators for ascetic Hanoi heroes in the mold of Ho Chi Minh will be surprised by Mai Van Bo, the round-faced scholar who represents North Viet Nam in France. In his years as Hanoi's best-known envoy to the West, Bo has grown grey, stylish and somewhat stout on the haute cuisine of hostesses delighted by his foxy charm and affable wit. Hanoi watchers are convinced that Bo is kept in the know by his government. Three weeks ago, his henchmen were already murmuring that "we are prepared...
...distinguished by something still rare in Asia: a marriage not of convenience but of love. As a young officer he had been attracted by a snapshot carried by a colleague of a pretty Delta girl; he sought her out, fell in love, and in 1951 married her. Nguyen Thi Mai Anh was a Catholic, Thieu a Confucian Buddhist, but for her he promised to convert to Catholicism. He finally did in 1958-just in time, his detractors say, to help his army career under the Catholic Diems...