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...Banal Incident." For the U.N. the last straw came next day when Congolese troops spotted 14 Canadian servicemen in a plane about to leave Ndjili, decided that they, too, were Belgians. They knocked the Canadians to the ground to search them, pounded a Canadian captain into unconsciousness with a rifle butt, stripped the others of their wallets and watches. As Ghanaian troops moved in to intervene, the U.N.'s Indian Brigadier Inder J. Rikhye swooped down by helicopter from his Leopoldville headquarters. Livid with rage, he roared at the Congolese: "I order you off this airfield immediately!" Meekly they...
...combatants, while the sedate elders looked on in dismay. Ambassador MacArthur welcomed Hagerty and his companion. Appointments Secretary Thomas Stephens; the three paused briefly for photographs and then hurried to the ambassador's official black Cadillac. It sped off, followed by two Fords carrying six U.S Secret Servicemen. Just nine days later, President Dwight D. Eisenhower was scheduled to drive the same route with Emperor Hirohito by his side. All three cars bowled along at high speed, but as the Cadillac emerged from the underpass and ascended the curving rise. MacArthur's Japanese chauffeur saw the students squatting...
...have to think, we cannot be sure but that the worst has happened.'' (The plane, it turned out, had strayed off course in bad weather and had been forced down by Red fighters in East Germany, where the Communists were holding the five-man crew, three servicemen and a woman.) Then Ike got into his car and rode into downtown Washington. Passing cheering throngs of 200,000 people, he waved and smiled, and when he got to the White House, he once more raised his clenched hands in salute, and disappeared...
...road is the pet project of the Generalissimo's eldest son. Lieut. General Chiang Ching-kuo. As head of the Vocational Assistance Commission for retired servicemen, he conceived the road as a way to provide useful work for the growing number of aging veterans of the 400,000-man Nationalist army. Last week many an old soldier was staying behind to take work in logging camps or else settle down on a little mountainside farm with a Formosan-born wife. The road is also expected to boost Formosa as a tourist attraction. A new 60-room hotel has been...
Later that afternoon, after he made his U.S. arrival official by placing a wreath on the tomb of Arlington's unknown servicemen. General de Gaulle drove down Pennsylvania Avenue to his first official White House conference. When he came out 75 minutes later, his long, solemn face intimidated even Washington's hard-case press corps. Here was the Western statesman who had last had contact with Khrushchev, the man who was to play host to next month's summit conference?and the newsmen were almost mute. Surely De Gaulle had reported to Ike on his conversations with Khrushchev...