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...mutinous Congolese troops of the Force Publique. But the paratroops soon got out of hand. Storming their way into Leopoldville after cap turing the airport, they beat up any stray Africans they encountered, disarmed and arrested Congolese troops. When Congo Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko pro posed a truce, with joint patrols from both sides to police Leopoldville, the paratroops indignantly refused to sit be side "those black apes" in military jeeps. They were trigger-happy and arrogant. TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs was shot at by a paratrooper, who then apologized because "in the dark I thought you were an African...
...during the long months of truce and wrangling negotiations, passions have subsided, and Turk and Greek seem ready to accept coexistence out of sheer weariness. Makarios will take office with wide personal popularity among the Greek Cypriot majority and a $40 million going-away present from the British. He will use it over the next five years to build roads and try to get Cypriot agriculture out of the wooden-plow stage. Simply by signing the treaty last week, Makarios guaranteed that the island's 12,000 restless unemployed will soon be at work on new base construction that...
Next day the Reds called for a nationwide general strike. But the cry went largely unheeded, even by many of the Communist-dominated unions. Premier Tambroni turned down a resolution calling for a 15-day truce between the rioting factions. Argued Tambroni: established governments maintaining law and order do not make truces with the forces of violence...
...should have read our Kipling prior to the Paris summit collapse and when the spirit of Camp David prevailed. In 1898 he published The Truce of the Bear, containing the line, ". . . the bear that walks like a man!" The poem tells of a clawed and blinded old hunter who says...
...tottering near and near; When he stands up as pleading, in wavering, man-brute guise, When he veils the hate and cunning of his little, swinish eyes; When he shows as seeking quarter, with paws like hands in prayer, That is the time of peril-the time of the Truce of the Bear...