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...arms it can use (supplied largely by Britain). One likely intended recipient is the Congo's Antoine Gizenga, the Red-lining rebel in Stanleyville, who as Lumumba's Vice Premier is recognized by the Communist bloc (and Ghana) as the Congo's legitimate ruler. Only last month, Nkrumah talked publicly of restoring the "balance of armaments" in the Congo if the Belgians continued to aid Katanga's Moise Tshombe. Nkrumah and his vigorous aides in Accra's African Affairs Bureau may also have plans to pump guns into explosive Angola, perhaps into white-led states...
...witty and amusing fashion of a male Nancy Mitford. Among the chief sitters: Catherine the Great, Peter the Great, Frederick the Great, Voltaire, Saint Simon, Jonathan Swift, Samuel Johnson, Ben Franklin, Louis XIV, Louis XV, John Wesley and Jean Jacques Rousseau. Intellectual and psychological vignettes illuminate the contradictions of ruler and sage. As a bride of 16, Catherine the Great was ignorant of the facts of life, thought the only difference between men and women was that men, for some odd reason, had to shave. Her Romanov husband was impotent, mad and sadistic, and his favorite pastime was to play...
Sheik Mubarak gave Saud plentiful opportunity to get acquainted. He held three separate lunches for the-Saudi ruler at three separate personal palaces. Fifteen hundred attended one banquet where, among other dishes, 25 young camels and 185 lambs were consumed. Specialty of the day: an entire young camel, roasted, containing an entire lamb, roasted, containing an entire roasted chicken, containing an entire roasted pigeon, contain ing a boiled egg. The repast was enlivened by Saud's five court jesters, who cracked off-color jokes and engaged in pratfall buffoonery...
...possible is the $500 million that Kuwait gets for its oil exports yearly. In its 6,000 square miles, Kuwait contains one-quarter of all the world's proven oil reserves-half again as much as the U.S.'s. Kuwait currency is 100% gold-backed, and the ruler keeps a reserve of $2 billion in British banks. There is nothing else to do with the money as Kuwait's development has already surged far ahead of its capacity to make use of it. New office buildings stand empty, new roads trail off in the desert with...
...their native habitats, and he always asked himself: "Would I go in the jungle with that man?'' By that standard, each was eligible for Monty's safari except Khrushchev. Mao, whom he met in Peking in May 1960, he regarded as 'the peace-loving ruler of an emancipated people-sort of trustworthy, friendly, courteous, cheerful, clean and reverent. Can Mao be persuaded that "the best interests of China lie in being friendly to the West?" Says Monty: "I shall do my best to bring this about...