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Good Credentials. The Cubans promised to restore the republic's U.S.-style 1940 constitution, promised to free trade unions from Communist domination and to return confiscated property to its rightful owners. The council also promised to hold free elections within 18 months after victory, to outlaw the Communist Party, and to abrogate all trade treaties with the Communist bloc...
...leaders needed only nine hours to come up with "concrete solutions" to the Congo problem. All Dag Hammarskjold and the U.N. need do, they said, was spring Russian-backed Patrice Lumumba from jail and restore him as Premier, evacuate all Belgian armed forces, reconvene the Congolese parliament and completely outlaw any separatist movements like that in mineral-rich Katanga province. If Hammarskjold refused to accept their blueprint, they threatened to pick up their soldiers (some 6,500 men, or one-third of the U.N. force in the Congo) and go home...
...grown increasingly curious over just what the fate of the world does hinge on, Meyer has explained, "Our real problem is living with the Chinese. If they were under United Nations surveillance, they could not commit such aggressive acts as moving into Tibet, with the impunity of the 'formal' outlaw...
...When he turned up for the annual Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner at the Waldorf (a politician's command performance) in black tie and found Nixon in white tie and tails, he seemed so comfortable that Nixon was moved to comment that whichever man won the election would outlaw the agony of full dress. In his speech, Kennedy produced some spirited quips. Only the host, Francis Cardinal Spellman, he said, could have brought together at the same banquet table two political leaders "who have long eyed each other suspiciously and who have disagreed so strongly, both publicly and privately...
...journalists grabbed for their pencils, Lumumba cried: "I am going out of my house tonight to die like Gandhi ... If I die, it will be because the whites have paid a black man to kill me ... I made Kasavubu head of state; now he is nothing but an outlaw. Mobutu is an imperialist, a fascist." Later he told the newsmen: "You journalists, you can go anywhere. Fetch Kasavubu. Fetch Mobutu. Tell them Lumumba challenges them to a duel!" Then Lumumba's voice fell to a mumble, and he tottered off to bed, muttering: "Tomorrow I will die with...