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Just before flying back home from a three-week European tour, Congolese Premier Moise Tshombe reluctantly held still for conferences in Brussels with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak and U.S. Ambassador Douglas MacArthur II. Embarrassed by the concerted howling of Arab and African leftists against the U.S.-Belgian paradrop on Stanleyville, Spaak and MacArthur pressured Tshombe to improve his reputation in Africa. They proposed that Tshombe: 1) "broaden" his Cabinet to include ministers, such as former Premier Cyrille Adoula, who might prove more acceptable to the African nationalists; 2) grant an amnesty to all rebel prisoners unstained...
...Last week in Uruguay: - The stock market was reeling from the effect of an unprecedented three-week strike by brokers. They went out when the government announced plans for imposing impossibly stiff regulations on market trade and landholding companies, who must sell off all their property within a year as part of the land-reform program...
...Khrushchev had been voted down by the Presidium last February over his polemical blast at Peking (also composed by Suslov), had to delay a month before making it public while peace feelers went out to Mao and were rejected. He had further irritated the Central Committee by taking a three-week tour of the farm lands on the lower Volga and in Kazakhstan and not reporting back to them; by erupting in anger at Indonesian President Sukarno when he expressed sympathy for Peking; by announcing late in September a new plan for heavy emphasis on the consumer-goods industry that...
...Council of Federated Organizations has begun a drive to recruit 100 more volunteers to teach a three-week session in Mississippi Freedom Schools, beginning Aug. 2. The new recruits will work in communities now without Freedom Schools...
Original plans called for two three-week sessions. The 100 volunteers will simply expand the second session. About half of them will work in Jackson. An additional school will also be established in the dangerous south-western part of the state; there are two in that region...