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...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 Katanga was waging a "clever big-money campaign" through a Manhattan-based Belgian public relations man named Michel Struelens, had spent $140,000 in 15 months "dispensing a string of myths" designed to make Tshombe look good in American eyes. (The accusation seemed to overlook the fact that the sum in question is hardly big money in Manhattan's public relations world, and that a great many Americans...
...thirty people who attended Wednesday evening's concert in Paine Hall by John Wiseman, baritone, and Michel Singher, piano, heard by far the best of the three Harvard-Radcliffe Music Club recitals this year. Wiseman, an apprentice artist with the Santa Fe Opera Company this past summer, sustained a splendid resonance from a Handel lyric through the complete cycle of nine songs by Faure...
...Michel Singher '62 complemented Mr. Wiseman throughout. His performance of the Faure accompaniment was in itself a creditable piece of pianism, even if, at times, he tried to drown Mr. Wiseman...
When the deadline passed, U.N. Congo Chief Sture Linner reported: "At least 104 foreign personnel failed to give any account of themselves." O'Brien de manded compliance. In answer, Katanga's white-led political police arrested O'Brien's deputy, Michel Tombelaine. Reported Linner, with undisguised frustration: "This was the culmination of a long series of wrongful acts by these officers, including the organization of attacks on the United Nations, repeated threats, and incitements to violence." O'Brien issued an ultimatum: remove all remaining white officers, or else. When Tshombe flatly refused, U.N. troops went...
...constitution's Article 16, which gave De Gaulle power to brush aside the debates of the Deputies as "Fourth Republic games" and run France as he pleased. To protest against De Gaulle's emergency powers, the Assembly chose a purely technical issue. De Gaulle's Premier Michel Debre bluntly refused a special session's demand to vote new farm legislation, insisting that it must wait for the regular Assembly session in October. Indignantly, the Deputies began to whistle and boo. The Socialists tabled a motion of censure against the government. Then every Deputy in the hall...