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From the edge of the Elisabethville airport, black, handsome Moise Tshombe, president of the rebellious Congo province of Katanga, watched somberly as a white Convair circled slowly over his capital. At last the Elisabethville control tower gave the Convair permission to land but first warned that the seven troop-laden transports behind it must turn away. Back from the Convair crackled a curt message: Unless all eight planes were allowed to land, the entire flight would return to Leopoldville. Toying with a tourist booklet entitled "Elisabethville Welcomes You," Tshombe (pronounced Chombay) hesitated briefly, then gave clearance to all the planes...
...near the Soviet periphery, Lodge glanced up at the six visiting wives and widows of the crewmen of the downed RB-47E (TIME, July 25) and damned the Soviet show as "a pretty revolting piece of hypocrisy." Most important, Lodge called the Soviets on their threat to airlift Red troops into the chaotic Congo in defiance of U.N. attempts to bring about order (see FOREIGN NEWS). "With other United Nations members," said Lodge, "we will do whatever may be necessary to prevent the intrusion of any military forces not requested by the United Nations." The firm rejoinder-for the moment...
...Paolo to lay a wreath on the Partisan Plaque, which commemorates Italian resistance to the Fascists during World War II. The celere, under orders to permit no demonstrations of any kind, quickly moved to disperse the mob. The crowd charged the police, heaving bricks and wielding staves. Then a troop of mounted carabinieri rode into...
...time past, Nikita had kept his soldiers out of the diplomatic limelight, had even been prone to twit them in public. Only a fortnight ago, while boasting of the Soviet army's current troop cuts at a diplomatic reception, Nikita gibed: "One of our generals over there just scratched his head. Another reduction!" But last week, as he ranted through the most clamorous diplomatic debacle of modern times, Nikita thrust Russia's top soldier into the public eye at every opportunity...
...because the sergeant evidently got around. And for the rest of this 100-minute movie, which was made in Italy and Austria by Director Martin (The Sound and the Fury) Ritt, the customers watch a quintet of crew-cut cuties who look about as exciting as a boy scout troop on an overnight hike...