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Storming out of the crowded hall, the 41-year-old Tshombe ordered his plane prepared for departure. Next day, he called in the press, fell to his knees to demonstrate for the benefit of photographers how "vassal" Kasavubu "bowed to the U.N." Then he announced he was leaving for home, and that the other Congo leaders were not worth talking to anyway. "For the last ten months, while we in Katanga have been working to build up our country, they have been loafing around chasing power, cars and women," sneered Tshombe. With that, Tshombe headed for the airport, where...
...Vassal. Yet, just the week before his father's death, Hassan hotly denied that there was any "new or recent orientation'' of Morocco's policy. "Our country,'' he explained, "is consolidating its independence and enlarging the domain of its interests. It is in this context that one must consider the development of Moroccan-Soviet cooperation. If certain recent manifestations give witness to its importance, this results from the great role played by the Soviet Union in the international field, and not from any vassalage on our part whatever." Western diplomats in Rabat see Hassan...
...challenge the Asantehene's rule, is now ready with a bill to set up, in accordance with the constitution, Houses of Chiefs to act as advisers to the government. When the bill becomes law, the Asantehene will lose his absolute power to make and break his own vassal chiefs. He will be merely the titular head of an advisory body more impotent than Britain's House of Lords...
...take vehement objection to your implicit characterization of the Paulist fathers [Feb. 3] as an "American Missionary Group" employing "American techniques." Many prominent Catholics find their tactlessness and indiscretions revolting. Their real aim is to make every free nation a vassal state of the Vatican...
Rebellion. The Turks ruled the Magyars for 170 years, and when at last in the 17th century they were driven out, the remaining Magyars found themselves a vassal state in the empire of the Austrian Habsburgs.* In 1848, when all Europe was arumble with the thunder of revolt, young Poet Sandor Petofi and Lajos Kossuth, the lawyer son of a Magyarized Slovak family of the Hungarian petty nobility, together sparked Hungary's most successful revolution. Poet Petofi died in the fight. Lawyer Kossuth went on to proclaim himself the head of an independent Hungary, but his triumph was short...