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...little black bag were agreements granting the Congolese government major stockholder participation in 76 Belgian companies (ranging from the giant Union Minière du Haut-Katanga through Sabena Airlines to the Leopoldville City Bus Co.). It also contained a dividend check for $1,840,000 from the all-pervasive Belgian holding company, Société Générale-the first, Tshombe hoped, of many to come. "From this day," Tshombe proclaimed, "the Congo can call itself politically and economically independent...
...farce began when the Cairo control tower turned away Tshombe's special Sabena flight because of "blocked runways." The Boeing flew on to Athens, where a furious Tshombe booked himself back to Cairo on a commercial Ethiopian airlines plane. The flight got in this time, but Tshombe was greeted by Nasser's security cops, whisked off to splendid isolation in Uruba Palace, Nasser's 40-room state guest house, where machine-gun-carrying Egyptian commandos were posted with orders to let no one in or out. "This is the dirtiest trick in history," howled Tshombe...
...four of Western Europe's biggest airlines was finally cleared for takeoff. At the urging of West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, a reluctant Charles de Gaulle gave Air France the green light to begin negotiating final terms with its proposed partners: Germany's Lufthansa, Belgium's Sabena and Italy's Alitalia. When Air Union at last comes into existence, it will boast more aircraft (322) than Pan Am (123) and TWA (160) combined and will fly an estimated 350,000 route miles, v. 93,000 for the two U.S. overseas giants...
...retain their own names, their separate flight operations and maintenance facilities. But they will pool their finances, dividing up all earnings according to a formula that reflects both present shares of traffic and growth records. Initially Air France will get 34% of the take, Lufthansa 30%, Alitalia 26% and Sabena 10%. Sales organizations will be combined, and each Air Union line will pass on to one of its partners any business it cannot handle itself. An executive committee will coordinate routes and timetables to eliminate costly overlapping service. Eventually the Air Union members expect to buy new planes jointly, which...
...Flemings still see all sorts of injustices, complain, for instance, that they have only 13 of Belgium's 83 diplomatic jobs abroad. While Brussels is officially bilingual from its street signs down to its liquor labels, French is preferred by the majority. One Fleming complained to Sabena Airlines not long ago because its sugar lumps were labeled sucre, but not suiker...