Word: sweaters
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tshombe proved to be as good as his word. Into Leopoldville's Ndjili Airport flew an Air Congo Beechcraft carrying Leftist Leader Antoine Gizenga, self-proclaimed heir to Patrice Lumumba and the instigator of Stanleyville's bloody 1961 revolt. Clad in a red, white and blue ski sweater, Gizenga was unshaven but smiling as he stepped out of the plane, apparently none the worse for the 2½ years he had spent on Bulambemba, an island prison in the mouth of the Congo River. It had not been a painful confinement, for his obliging jailers had given Gizenga...
...Gang. Found guilty on 16 counts ranging from assault and battery to extortion, Paulie Muller was sentenced to five years in prison, while Hans the Swine drew a four-year term and others of the dozen defendants received fines and shorter jail terms. A young blonde in a green sweater sobbed quietly, while a nattily dressed sharper muttered:"It's a damned dirty trick, putting Paulie away...
Moved by the significance of the new program, and doubtless by the arrival of spring, French Finance Minister Valéry Giscard D'Estaing composed a poem to mark the occasion. Giscard, who once donned a V-necked sweater to give his own anti-inflation program a soft, living-room sell over French TV, outlined the battle against inflation in the form of the Ten Commandments...
Trigger-tempered troopers mauled women spectators, roughed up the French ski coach, hustled newsmen off to the jug for nothing more serious than asking stupid questions. They really mussed up the hairdos of three inebriated U.S. Olympians who borrowed the car of a French sweater manufacturer (without telling him), drove it the wrong way down a one-way street (without a license), and had the bad sense to shout "Dirty Nazi swine!" when they got arrested...
Different sources differ on the details of the party, but the cutting of the sweater seems to have been the most disrupting incident...