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Died. General Rene Cogny, 64, commander of French troops in North Viet Nam during the fall of Dienbienphu in 1954; in the crash of an Air France Caravelle jetliner that took 94 other lives; in the Mediterranean, near Nice. Known to his men as Le General Vitesse (General Hurry-Up), Cogny protested angrily when superiors ordered him to hold a defensive position at Dienbienphu, which fell to the Communists after an eight-week siege. Equally bitter was the political settlement reached at the Geneva Conference shortly thereafter. Said the general: "Too many deaths, too many deaths for nothing...
...Died. Rene d'Harnoncourt, 67, Vienna-born director of Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art from 1949 until his retirement last July; of injuries suffered when he was hit by a car while on a stroll; in New Suffolk, L.I. An authority on primitive art as well as a modernist, D'Harnoncourt first established himself in the United States in 1930 when he gathered and put on tour a formidable (1,200 objects) collection of Mexican artifacts dating back to the 16th century; he went on to teach at Sarah Lawrence College, became art adviser to Nelson...
...forgotten it. Last week, as reassurance to the U.S.'s southern neighbors, President Johnson flew to San Salvador for a minisummit with the presidents of five Central American republics: El Salvador, Costa Rica, Honduras, Nicaragua and Guatemala. Before leaving Texas, he conferred with Bolivia's President Rene Barrientos Ortuno at the L.B.J. ranch and played host to ambassadors from 20 Latin countries at San Antonio's HemisFair, itself a symbol of inter-American solidarity. The Administration hoped that the little summit in San Salvador would serve the practical purpose of revitalizing the floundering Central American Common Market...
...diary came into our hands cannot be divulged at the moment," he wrote. "It is enough to say that it required no monetary remuneration." Actually, several copies of the diary have been around for the stealing or buying. At least one copy each had been photographed for Bolivian President Rene Barrientos, the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency and several Bolivian military brass. In addition, two U.S. journalists were allowed to transcribe many of the doc- uments found on Che, which included, besides the diary, correspondence and military records. Other copies of the diary could certainly have been made by Castro sympathizers...
...Rene Cartier, business manager; Raymond Cartier (no kin), a star reporter; and Arnold de Contades, 35, a Prouvost grandson-in-law who has had no previous experience in journalism. Then he drew up a list of several staffers to be dismissed. This action, he maintained, was dictated by economic necessity. And, indeed, profits had slipped somewhat before the strike. By failing to publish four issues during the strikes, Paris-Match had lost at least $1,000,000. Moreover, advertising orders had dropped, and the magazine was hard put to maintain its prestrike 1,280,000 circulation. By trimming the staff...