Word: instead
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Congo only at the invitation of the Congo government, and last week Premier Lumumba, growling ominously about the pressures on him, called on Hammarskjold to abandon his plans to garrison Katanga province with mixed black and white forces (Swedish, Moroccan and Ethiopian), demanded a totally black force instead. "African troops," he insisted, "are completely capable of carrying out the U.N. mission." In Accra, Ghana's Nkrumah was still talking up the formation of an "All-African" army composed of units from Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R. and "volunteers" from all the continent...
...Vientiane was preparing a different sort of funeral for the Cabinet itself. Voice of America. A moody soldier trained in a U.S. Ranger course in the Philippines, Captain Kongle, 26, was under orders to take his battalion 40 miles north to hunt down pro-Communist Pathet Lao rebels. Instead, he moved east to a nearby Laotian army camp, where he won over an armored squadron with the fiery plea: "This fratricidal fighting among Laotians must cease!" Rolling back to Vientiane before dawn, Kongle's 3,000 men swiftly captured the capital, its air port, two generals...
...three-phase process of nation building-revolution, industrial development, prosperity-Mexico is well into Phase 2, and President Adolfo Lopez Mateos is determined to keep going. To do the job, he needs political stability. Instead, Lopez Mateos is now bedeviled by leftist demonstrations and violence that resulted last week in the jailing of Mexico's No. 1 artist and No. 1 Communist, David Alfaro Siqueiros...
...sort: Saint-Laurent, a frail fellow, is a key figure in France's fashion industry. But last week the army rejected his third request to stay bivouacked in his salon. On Sept. 1 he will report for his physical examination, presumably soon thereafter be dreaming of furloughs instead of furbelows...
Snorted Dr. Nathan Shock of the U.S. National Institutes of Health: "If these claims for procaine were true, you'd be adding ten years to your life every time your dentist fills a tooth. This woman is the Pied Piper of 1960, leading the aged instead of the young...