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String of Myths? From the U.S. State Department came more slaps at Katanga -poorly timed in view of the delicate negotiations just beginning in Leopoldville. Two top officials flatly accused Tshombe's regime of tailoring propaganda to Katanga's own set of questionable facts. G. Mennen Williams, Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, in a Detroit speech accused the Katanga regime of fabricating "horrendous tales of indiscriminate mayhem by the United Nations troops.'' In a Philadelphia speech the same evening, Carl T. Rowan, Deputy Assistant Secretary of State for Public Affairs, added the accusation that...
Since his appointment ten months ago as Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, onetime Michigan Governor G. Mennen Williams has made three trips to Africa, logged 75,000 miles pumping hands and poking into problems (and once getting poked on the jaw himself by an indignant white African). Last week Williams was up to his bow tie in Baedekers preparing for a fourth trip, when he suddenly canceled the safari because of "urgent business at home," In fact, the cancellation came on orders from State Secretary Dean Rusk, who is concerned by over-the-budget spending at Foggy Bottom...
Since 1949, when Democrat G. Mennen Williams became Governor, Michigan's Democrats have controlled the state's executive department while rural Republicans ruled the legislature. But last week, the long, often paralyzing standoff between the Republican legislature and Democratic administration showed signs of ending. In an election of delegates to a constitutional convention next month at Lansing, the G.O.P. engineered its best statewide showing in years...
...Assistant Secretary of State G. Mennen Williams is not popular with Africa's white settlers. It all goes back to a speech he delivered earlier this year in Nairobi, Kenya, declaring that the U.S. stood for a policy of "Africa for the Africans." Williams' belated explanation that "Africans"' also included Africa's whites never seemed totally convincing...
Then Bobby and Ethel Kennedy returned to join the representatives of 49 other nations for the two days of ceremonial dancing and feasting in Abidjan, where a brand-new presidential palace gleamed in marble glory above cool fountains and wide terraces. There, G. Mennen ("Soapy") Williams, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for African Affairs, made some sort of diplomatic fashion history by appearing in cutaway coat and green polka-dot bow tie. There, too, Bobby announced the U.S. gift to Houphouet-Boigny of a beige, two-engined Aero Commander plane. (The Ivory Coast's President is scared of flying...