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Tshombe, for one, was quite willing to be reconciled. After a four-hour meeting with Adoula, he called a press conference at Leopoldville's Zoo Restaurant. While monkeys chattered and brightly dressed Congolese couples twisted to the music of the Conga Succes jazz band, a grinning Tshombe shook hands, signed autographs and proclaimed: "I'm convinced that sincere, total reconciliation between all Congolese is the only absolute condition for saving the country from misery and anarchy." The crowd shouted back: "Free us! Free us!" This was heady stuff, but then everything in the months ahead would...
Suddenly the plane soared into a steep, desperate climb, shook violently, plunged and crashed. There was a moment of deep, terrifying silence: everyone aboard was stunned or dying. Birch Bayh recovered before the others. "My first thought," he said later, "was that the plane had been hit by lightning." He looked cautiously about. "I saw black things outside my window," he recalled. In his shock, it took him a while to notice the black things were trees, that the Aero Commander had crashed-as it turned out, in an apple orchard on a hill three miles short of the airport...
After his return home, Kaunda beamingly shook hands with his Cabinet ministers, who had turned out in slogan-emblazoned "freedom shirts." Then he drove through cheering crowds to his neon-lighted United National Independence Party headquarters (formerly a dry-cleaning plant). There he praised his reception as "nonracial, nontribal and purely Zambian." Then the Black Lion, who has shrewdly raised the pay of his soldiers and police to discourage dissension like that which jarred East Africa, made clear that he can be as tough as he is mild-mannered. Said he, addressing himself to his country's often troublesome...
...bigger secret than her formulas). "Open the safe or we'll kill you," snarled the head hood. "Go ahead," she sneered. "I've lived my life. You can kill me, but I'm not going to let you rob me." That kind of shook the thugs, and when she screamed they faded faster than a telltale wrinkle, without so much as laying a finger on anything in the joint...
...Elis really shook Princeton. Captain Demi Gibson scored four goals to lead the offense. He teams with a superb sophomore, Mac Bradford, and football quarterback Brian Rapp on the attack...