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...Lumumba Monument. Mobutu is very happy in the role of a grand chief. He flies around Kinshasa in an Alouette helicopter piloted by a silver-haired Swede, drives about in Mercedes 600 limousines and sails the Congo River in his yacht the M.S. President Mobutu. Besides his house in the paratroop camp, he maintains a palace on Kinshasa's Mount Stanley and lavish villas in Lausanne and Abidjan in the Ivory Coast. To counteract rumors that he is a neocolonialist at heart, he has sought to identify himself with his old enemy Patrice Lumumba. Currently he is building...
...fire quietly burning, the air conditioner operating to balance the temperature, a Mantovani playing in the background. This is the scene described on nationwide television as Commander Nixon peers out over the Washington Monument from his favorite room in the White House. Add to this Nixon's uniformed "palace guard," his isolation from criticism by Kissinger, Mitchell, Ehrlichman and Haldeman, and the result is what appears to be a man overly impressed by his own position and growing more detached from reality...
Bettman, calling his Ode a "monument to obscurity," said that he agreed with what Elliott had written, but added that his poem was probably a little more circumspect about...
Moscow's Order. After lunch Stoph was scheduled to place a wreath on the monument to Nazi victims in the center of town, but West German authorities were forced to cancel the ceremony because of unruly, Communist-dominated crowds. Fearful that the conference would end in a complete fiasco, a visibly nervous Brandt apologized for the crowd's behavior. Later, in a give-and-take session, Brandt volunteered that Bonn would eventually "solve" East Germany's demand for recognition if Ulbricht & Co. would only respond to his offers of closer ties. Though Stoph was unresponsive, he declared...
...past. Agnew also insisted that he was not to be "muzzled." Nonetheless, in a speech at Boise, Idaho, Agnew excised some harsh phrases about "choleric young intellectuals" and "tired, embittered elders" that had appeared in his advance text. He was similarly subdued when he dedicated a Confederate monument at Stone Mountain...