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Sheep Crossing. Previously famed mainly as Ludwig van Beethoven's birthplace, Bonn today is known to diplomats as the most inconvenient, uncomfortable capital this side of Usumbura. True, the Rhine offers a lovely, healing view to harassed government types, but Bonn is Germany's rainiest (161.8 days a year) and most densely populated city; its traffic is the heaviest, its rentals among the highest. "The city is just half the size of Chicago's Central Cemetery," says a U.S. diplomat. "And twice as dead...
...free elections the Bahutu majority overwhelmingly voted for a separate constitutional monarchy under his leadership. Genuinely popular with both the Watutsi and the Bahutu, Mwambutsa is an accomplished amateur magician who nightly performs his feats of prestidigitation as he tools around the hot spots of his capital city. Usumbura, in a white Edsel convertible, accompanied by his equally white Belgian girl friend...
Died. Louis Rwagasore, 31. Belgian-baiting Crown Prince and newly elected Premier of Urundi, southern half of the trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi, which is scheduled for independence in 1962; of an assassin's bullet; in Usumbura, Urundi...
What God Did. Moving west to Usumbura, in the Belgian-administered trust territory of Ruanda Urundi, Graham spoke to what he said was one of the toughest groups he had ever had to handle-a noisy, restless crowd of 5,000. Many had trudged miles over rough country, slept nights by mountain trails in the rain. Graham gave them one of the most eloquent talks of his African tour, contrasted the majesty of God with the smallness of man. "How could mighty God speak to us little people? God looked down from Heaven, and he wanted to talk...
...European universities and the people given a vote. The Belgian report to the U.N. got rather personal at one point in its 382-page, statistics-laden report. It said: "The private life of the Mwami [King] of Urundi left something to be desired when he paid visits to Usumbura [the capital]. Fortunately, his visits are no longer as frequent ... He has been advised to be more careful; time will tell whether he has heeded this advice...
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