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Unlikely Strongman. The Congo's newest emergent leader is Joseph Désiré Mobutu, a 29-year-old lieutenant colonel whom even most Congolese had never heard of until he announced his military coup at midweek. "We are bringing a truce to politics until the end of the year," he declared. "During this revolutionary period, we will try to achieve a political agreement between the factions...
Time for a Truce. For the first time in decades, Mormon bishops went around warning backsliders in their flocks-i.e., Tribune subscribers-to change their ways. The Deseret News invaded the Sunday field, which until then had been a Tribune monopoly. Going desperately after circulation, the Deseret News pushed steak knives and other gimcrack prizes on would-be subscribers. The Tribune fought back with its own prize contests, but could not afford the competition. The Deseret News moved out front...
...Truce. By week's end business was far below normal in Jacksonville, Governor LeRoy Collins had alerted the National Guard, and the city's 400-man police force was enforcing an uneasy truce. N.A.A.C.P. agents, in town to call off further sit-ins and to try to keep Negro gangs under control, blamed the situation on Jacksonville's stubborn segregation. Despite his police chief's report that "all the fellows we arrested were local boys," Mayor Burns insisted that the trouble had been started by whites from out of town. Whoever was right, the promise...
...Vacation. The outrage in Amman brought a quick end to the brief truce that had been established between Hus sein and Nasser a week earlier at an Arab League meeting in Lebanon. Jordan police arrested an Amman bookshop owner named Salah el Saffadi, who was said to have confessed that the explosives used to murder Majali had arrived at his bookstall from Syria innocuously labeled "press material." The two fugitive employees had dragged the bombs into the office building in suitcases the night before and set the fuses. One left the country by midnight. The other, said police, coolly collected...
...massacre at Chenoua Beach climaxed the worst week of rebel terrorism in Algeria since June 1957. It stemmed from rebel rage at the breakdown six weeks ago of preliminary truce talks between France and the F.L.N. Since then, French officers had spread the word among Algeria's many uncommitted Moslems that "the F.L.N. is finished." The massacre at Chenoua might not endear the rebels to their fellow countrymen - many Moslems were appalled - but it was meant to prove cold-bloodedly that the F.L.N. was not yet to be counted...