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...Police said the bomb was thrown through the window of Dean Edmund A. Gullion's office. As the fire spread, it destroyed Gullion's office and the adjacent office of assistant dean Charles Shane...
...fire destroyed Gullion's extensive collection of first edition books and manuscripts and a tapestry given him on a recent trip to South Vietnam. Total damage was estimated...
Congo. The tenacity of able U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion in Leopoldville helped bring Katanga's stubborn Moise Tshombe and Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula together in a pact at Kitona (TIME, Dec. 29). Now the problem was to enforce the pact, and to bring Tshombe's secessionist province back into a unified Congo. Last week, as promised, Tshombe sent Katanga delegates to Leopoldville to sit with Adoula's commission in drafting revisions for the Congolese constitution. Other omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding...
...Aghast, Gullion tugged at Tshombe's sleeve, implored him to keep talking; the alternative, he pointed out. might well be Tshombe's own destruction, for the U.N. force that now controlled Elisabethville, Tshombe's Katanga stronghold, would never hand back the city unless agreement was reached. Ralph Bunche buttonholed both sides; two other key U.N. officials-Ghana's Robert Gardiner and Tunisia's Mahmoud Khiari-feverishly suggested possible new formulas for compromise...
...obviously planned to try; already he was grumbling about Gullion's intervention, even though Tshombe himself originally requested it. And hardly had .the wily Moise returned to Elisabethville when he declared that he had "not found anything" at Kitona. In any case, said Moise, "I am only the mouthpiece of my people. It is for them to decide"-adding darkly, "The accord we have reached has to be ratified by my ministers and by the National Assembly [ Katanga's legislature], and that cannot be done for at least ten days...