Word: l
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...L. Gard Wiggins, Administrative vice-President, said yesterday that "the problem has been discussed at great length," but did not mention any specific possible solutions...
...Program. They had no influence whatsoever on the selection of invited guests. Moreover, there is no "panel on the Near East" during 20th Century Week. Professor Jones, therefore, has no factual basis for drawing the conclusion that he did. Roger M. Leed, General Chairman, 20th Century Week. John L. Simmons, Finance Chairman...
Temporary Discomfort. Mobutu's hand was being strengthened, too, by the return of hundreds of Belgians, who were coming into Léopoldville last week by the planeful, reopening their musty shops and returning to the advisory jobs with the Congolese government which they had been scheduled to occupy under the original independence agreement. Drilling the Congolese army day after day, a handful of returned Belgian army officers last week turned it out 3,000 strong for a snappy if belated Armistice Day parade. As he brought the troops into the line of march on Boulevard Albert...
...week's end, as relative peace temporarily settled on Léopoldville, news from the boondocks indicated that the U.N. could use all the help it could get. In the bush country of Katanga province, where they ambushed and killed nine Irish U.N. soldiers a fortnight ago, savage Baluba tribesmen last week hacked 113 of their native enemies to death, carving some of the bodies up for cannibal feasts. To its edgy troops the U.N. passed out the not very reassuring instructions that "if [poison] arrows are removed within two seconds, they cause only temporary discomfort...
...ease off. Khrushchev has also made clear that his hopes for friendly relations with U.S. President-elect John Kennedy are more important to him than Castro's feelings, and has warned Castro to confine his anti-U.S. attacks to the "Government" of President Eisenhower. When Raúl Castro was in Moscow last summer, Khrushchev himself remarked: "You know there are only two parties in Cuba, the radicals and the conservatives. The conservatives are the Communists-you are the radicals...