Word: parley
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Palaver over Parley. In Elisabethville, the bitter little two-week war was, for the moment, over; only the scattered shots of occasional snipers broke the temporary truce. The U.N. was in control, having achieved its "limited objective" as defined by U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball: "Freedom of movement for the peace-keeping forces, without the daily, bloody harassment by local Katanga troops, whipped into excited and irresponsible action by rumor, radio and beer." After that, it became the task of hard-working U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion to corral Tshombe, who had fled to the Northern Rhodesia border...
Noting his reliance on whites, a U.S. newsman nicknamed him "Uncle Tshombe." The advisers soon became a cause of controversy at the parley. Yelled Patrice Lumumba, a skinny,young firebrand from Stanleyville whose histrionics were already grabbing headlines: "I demand the immediate withdrawal from this conference room of all white advisers! Tshombe doesn't dare open his mouth until he has received a slip of paper from the European behind...
Ugly Little Bill. What Kwame Nkrumah really discovered, when he got back home from his heady talks with Nikita Khrushchev and his glittering attendance at the Belgrade parley of the neutralist nonbloc, was the looming failure of his dream of a Nkrumah-controlled Pan African empire. His influence in the Congo had fallen away, and the expensive Ghana-subsidized alliance with Sékou Toure's Guinea and Modibo Keita's Mali was getting him nowhere. Moreover, the day was fast approaching when Ghana's dwindling exchequer would have to put up $226 million for the ambitious...
Truce, our reader, a parley now we crave...
Near the Flash Point? For all his professed desire to parley, nothing Khrushchev said last week suggested a new basis for discussion of anything-except his own demands that East Germany be given total control over access to Berlin. Britain's slim and elegant Foreign Secretary, Lord Home, thought it necessary to caution his own people about being prematurely relieved by the prospects of talks: "It is really no good looking on the word negotiation as an incantation that can be repeated as if it might solve everything," he said. "So far, in all our contacts with the Russians...