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...didactic task completed, McNamara returned to his huge desk in the Pentagon's E Ring. He had applied the tidiest mind in Washington to clearing away the cobwebs of confusion about Cuba. And that, as far as he was concerned, was that...
...meaning lies behind the door, any reader can delight in watching the greatest verbal prestidigitator of his time at work, keeping seven ambiguities in the air, cutting cliches in half with a flick of his snickersnee, and as a finale, slipping out of the tightest of knots, the tidiest of pigeonholes. It may not be significant, but it is done with dazzling skill...
Mining Money. In his five months of "independence," Tshombe was rightly credited with heading the slickest, tidiest and best policed of all the fragments of the old Congo. He paid the police, paved the streets and repaired the waterworks from a source of cash no other province enjoys. It is the cut Tshombe gets from Katanga's Union Minière, the firm that produces 8% of the world's copper, 60% of its cobalt, as well as cadmium, zinc, silver, etc. Union Minière this year is due to hand Tshombe's regime some...
...Katanga's Moise Tshombe, it was the worst of times. Once he was the cockiest Congolese of them all, the man with the most money and the tidiest private army. Last week, stripped of his Belgian advisers and cut off from his troops, he languished in a guarded villa in Coquilhatville. He was a victim of that old Congolese persuasion tactic-kidnaping. And nobody much seemed to care...
Such neutrality might be hard to maintain. And a neutral Laos serving as a buffer state between Communism and the free world is not the tidiest of solutions. But then, few things in Laos are (see following story...