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...date: August 1964. The place: Convention Hall, Atlantic City. The milling throngs at the Democratic National Convention have suddenly thrown themselves into paroxysms of cheers, shrieks and rebel yells. Snaking through the mob come dozens of beach-tanned nubile wenches, smiling, waving placards. The band puffs its zillionth chorus of Happy Days Are Here Again. And then to the spotlighted rostrum moves Lyndon Baines Johnson, who has just been nominated by acclamation as the party's candidate to succeed himself. Humbly, he motions for silence...
Though the Cambodian government promised to pay for the damages, Sihanouk called the riot "inexcusable but comprehensible," said that the mob was goaded by "the repeated humiliations inflicted on their country by the Anglo-Saxon powers" (total U.S. aid to Cambodia since 1954: $340 million). In a calculated slap at the West, Sihanouk went on to discuss neighboring Laos in a way that all but recognized the Communist Pathet Lao as its real government, also announced that he would soon send a delegation to Hanoi to negotiate a border-demarcation agreement with Communist North Viet Nam. Since South Viet...
...Gabon's 450,000 citizens couldn't have cared less about the coup. But the combination of French steel and Mba's flinty threats of "total punishment" once he was back in office finally struck a spark. In Libreville's La-lala quarter, a dissonant mob formed. Fired up on payday whisky, it marched on the capital's central market, screaming: "Frenchmen go home!" The rioters were finally dispersed in a crunching whirl of para rifle butts...
...heroic proportions in the eyes of the aroused public. The riots exploded with new violence, and in the glare of burning shops and houses, Libreville's French population-largely composed of old Indo-China and Algerian colons-noticed that only the Americans were spared the angry mob's violence...
...Down? A few wives yearn for the boiled shirts and ball gowns, but the Congressmen are all for Lyndon's way. "It wasn't like those mob scenes we've had before," said one. Starting in January, the President took on the entire Senate in three dinner dances, is now working his way through the House. Last week he reached the half way point by holding the third of six scheduled buffet-receptions for some 70 Representatives and their wives...