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Last week it happened again in the arrival of a planeload of emergency supplies donated by the U.S. for flood-battered Stanleyville. It was quite a moment for the lazy little river capital of Eastern Prov ince, stronghold of Red-backed Antoine Gizenga, whose own rebellion against the central government had for a time seemed as serious as Moise Tshombe's in Katanga...
...addition, Tshombe was restocking the army's leadership by recruiting dozens of fresh mercenaries in Europe. One planeload of 32 white fighters already was flying south from Europe. When they got to Northern Rhodesia, Federal Premier Sir Roy Welensky nervously decided the visas of 26 Frenchmen and a Spaniard were not in order, turned them back. His border guards also confiscated 1,700 Ibs. of "clothing," which turned out to be military camouflage garb. But five tough-looking Belgian "mechanics" who had valid visas (and boasted openly to reporters that they were professional fighters) got on a train...
Hopping from Lagos to Nicosia to New Delhi last week with a planeload of 20 in his party, onetime Manhattan Adman Bowles wisely refrained from discussing his problems with the President. But Bowles Press Aide Carl Rowan said airily: "If Mr. Bowles was afraid of being ousted one would assume he would appear meek and cautious. Instead, he has spoken with strong conviction." And Bowles's aides were prolific with puffs about their chief. Said one: "Our man knows all the African problems, and he is clear about what stand he thinks the U.S. should take in each...
...Sanford's Xit, an ink eradicator, was also fine for removing banana-leaf stains, a common island washday problem. When this intelligence, duly confirmed by a home test, appeared in "Readers' Exchange," it generated such a demand that the U.S. manufacturer had to fly in an emergency planeload-which vanished in a day. So many similar hints poured in ("For those who have no dustpan. Wet the edge of a newspaper. Place it on the floor and sweep residue onto this"), that Columnist Heloise soon had a reputation as a household authority...
...Planeload. The Communists would be happy to stick around. Happiest of all were the Red Chinese, who were gleeful to find themselves back at a bargaining table-and propaganda forum-with the civilized world. The chosen delegate was chunky, Paris-educated Marshal Chen Yi, 60, who has been Foreign Minister for three years and who, as a veteran of the 1927 Nanchang uprising and commander of the rearguard in Mao Tse-tung's Long March in 1934, is one of Chinese Communism's elder statesmen. Predictably, Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko was at hand at the airport...