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Behind McCormack's promise lay the recent fight over a 15-member Rules Committee, which presumably would not act as a roadblock to Administration legislation (TIME, Jan. 18). McCormack had thought he needed the ten votes of Georgia's House delegation to win that battle. He thereupon entered into negotiations with old Carl Vinson, dean of the House Georgians. In return for Georgia's votes-plus Landrum's promise that he would support both the President's tax program and medicare-McCormack agreed to get Landrum on Ways and Means...
...holding forth at a sort of informal command post. Every now and then somebody would run up to him and ask for military counsel. One man who got close to him reported that "there was a wild, dazed look in his eyes." Late that morning, soldiers at a roadblock arrested Walker as he was attempting to leave town in a car. He was arraigned on charges of insurrection and seditious conspiracy and sent to the U.S. prison and medical center in Springfield, Mo., for observation. At week's end he was released on $50,000 bond...
...only a few days. Last week he summoned newsmen to Elisabethville's Prince Leopold Hospital, led them into the mortuary and pointed a well-manicured finger at the bodies of two Katangese gendarmes. He claimed that they had been slain by 500 U.N. troops who attacked a Katanga roadblock. Bellowed Tshombe: "I do not believe in U Thant's good faith any longer, nor in the Western nations who guaranteed U Thant's plan." For Propaganda. Infuriated U.N. officials in Leopoldville accused Tshombe of deliberately staging the clash by ordering 100 Katanga gendarmes to encircle and attack...
Last week, on the Durban-Johannesburg highway, Nelson Mandela's car was stopped by a police roadblock. Acting on an informer's tip, the cops had finally got their...
With Arrows. Within an hour. Raja's tough Gurkhas had slipped into position around the dug-in Katangese on the airport road. Suddenly shots rang out. When the dust cleared half an hour later, one Indian was dead and four wounded, but among the shambles of the smashed roadblock lay 38 dead Katangese and still more wounded. The road was at last open, permitting a convoy of 240 Swedish reinforcements, just in by air from Europe, to move into the town itself...