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Nazi State. Schramme seems to have given up his long-held hope that other mercenaries operating out of Angola will open up a second front. And he knows that he and his men cannot take over the country on their own. He also knows that his departure can come none too soon for the 80,000 non-Africans still in the Congo. To many Congolese these days, the words mercenaries and whites are synonymous, and whites and Asians alike realize that they are in mortal peril from revenge-seeking Africans as long as the mercenaries mock Congolese sovereignty...
...stipulations were part of the deal. One was that the directors should eliminate all Nazi undertones in their mountings of the music dramas. Another, not unrelated, was that British-born Winifred Wagner, widow of the composer's son Siegfried and mother of Wolfgang and Wieland, should abdicate her long-held role as iron-fisted matriarch of Bayreuth's every artistic and managerial move. Winifred had been a high-ranking Nazi, a personal friend and financial supporter of Hitler, and had allowed Wolfgang to be photographed as a child sitting in the Fiihrer...
With that, Majority Leader Mike Mansfield decided that the Senate's interest in keeping its private business private-as well as protecting the CIA-was more important than its long-held pride in open debate. He asked for an extraordinary secret session, only the second held since the middle of World War II.* "Things might be said that aren't particularly true and could be harmful," reasoned Mansfield. "Rumor and hearsay can be damaging...
...three days of public hearings. This initial phase of the investigation was restricted to Dodd's relationship with Julius Klein, a Chicago-based public-relations man and lobbyist who has a number of West German industrial and quasi-political accounts. Boyd said that in December 1964, his long-held concern about the Senator's dealings with Klein was sharpened by Dodd's reports of his campaign financing, which he said, concealed the "misappropriation of hundreds of thousands of dollars...
...Ford is investing $30 million to enable its truck and tractor factory to assemble automobiles as well. Alcoa has set up a pilot company as the first step toward establishing a $51 million aluminum works. The most hopeful investment field is in petrochemicals, where the government recently broke the long-held monopoly of state-owned Petrobras to attract more efficient private companies. Some ten corporations, including Jersey Standard, Gulf, and Phillips Petroleum, are now actively studying the investment possibilities. Brazil hopes that they will end up investing about $200 million each...