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...tragedy is that the West succeeded in creating another bogey man. When the Congolese Premier arrived in New York last summer to plead for United Nations aid, he impressed UN and State Department officials (including Secretary of State Herter) with his intelligence, sense of diplomacy, and awareness of danger on the left. But Mr. Lumumba offered only the friendship of an independent Congo, while the government seemed to demand the commitment of a dependent nation. Making a pathetic joke out of respect for "duly elected" government, the U.S. transformed the definition of "duly elected" into "pro-Western," by favoring...
Other captured rebel officers, some of them barefoot, stood in line at the palace to plead with the Emperor for their lives. Students at the University College of Addis Ababa, who had come out in support of the rebels, learned that they could not go back to classes until they had written their individual apologies to the Emperor. That left Ethiopia where it had always been, or perhaps a step or two backward. One Ethiopian diplomat noted bitterly that the fighting had wiped out an inordinate number of the country's scarcest commodity-well-educated...
...Electric Co. and Westinghouse Electric Corp., charged by the Government with conspiring to rig bids and fix prices in the sale of $7 billion in electrical equipment (TIME, Dec. 5). In the largest criminal case in the history of the antitrust laws, most of the companies were allowed to plead nolo contendere (no contest) in certain cases, provided they pleaded guilty in seven major cases. On each indictment the companies are liable to a $50,000 fine; some 46 individuals involved face possible jail sentences...
...cases would drag on for years. In months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, often in Judge Ganey's chambers, both sides worked out a tentative agreement: the Government would accept nolo pleas in 13 of the cases, but would expect defendants in the other seven cases to plead guilty. Judge Ganey has indicated that, in ruling on the pleas, he intends to go along with the Government's request...
With intricate legal overlapping, many companies and individuals were included in each of the seven critical cases. Several companies-including McGraw-Edison, Allis-Chalmers and Federal Pacific -have pleaded guilty in certain of the seven cases. Nevertheless, a few firms or individuals may yet prefer to plead not guilty and force a trial...