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...Command inscrutably chose to come to Welbeck's aid. Soon after Nussbaumer's ultimatum, the U.N. sent reinforcements that raised the U.N. guard at the Ghanaian embassy to 170 Tunisian soldiers. The Congo was represented by a handful of military police headed by busting Security Inspector Henri N'Gampo, which frequently retreated behind a hedge to stuff his pipe with bangi, a Congolese form of marijuana...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: The Embassy Firefight | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...late afternoon, apparently drug-crazed, Inspector N'Gampo was out of control. He scrambled about shouting "We will kill him." Then his unpredictable anger turned on three Western reporters, including TIME Correspondent Lee Griggs. He ordered them arrested as Communists and interrupted their protests "Shut up or you die!" Only the arrival of a personal emiissary from Colonel Mobutu persuaded him to free the newsmen...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: The Embassy Firefight | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...deployed facing the embassy. TheTunisians, equally jittery, eyed them in the growing dusk. At 7:40, Lieut. Colonel Joseph N'Kokolo, second-ranking officer in the Congo army started across the street with the evident intention of conferring with the Tunisian commanding officer. This was the moment Police inspector N'Gampo chose to shout "Tirez: [Fire]!" A French-speaking Tunisian pulled the trigger of his submachine gun; the burst smashed into the chest of Colonel N'Kokolo, killing him instantly. Both sides wildly opened fire, and, in the first exchange, while he was still screaming "Tirez!", Policeman...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CONGO: The Embassy Firefight | 12/5/1960 | See Source »

...broaden the attack on costs a top-level committee of General Bradley, Air Force Controller Lieut. General William D. Eckert and Inspector General Lieut. General Joseph F. Carroll last week launched 70 specialists into the field to survey management practices of Air Force prime contractors. First to be studied is Martin Co., Titan missile prime contractor. Martin was picked because the Titan program is at the stage where catching mistakes might save money. The Atlas missile program is too old, the Minuteman too young...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOVERNMENT: Assault on Costs | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...Happened in Broad Daylight. A slick but effective suspense film written by Swiss Author Friedrich Duerrenmatt (reversing the usual process, he drew his novel The Pledge from the script) in which a psychopath-brilliantly acted by Gert Frobe-and a police inspector glide through frightening shadows...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Nov. 21, 1960 | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

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