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...question now was whether Leopoldville's Central Government could keep Katanga under control now that it was won. If the mob violence back in Leo itself was any indication, U.N. troops would have to stay on in Katanga for quite a while. Down Leo's Boulevard Albert stormed 600 students and street urchins, shouting "Tshombe to the gallows!" At the British embassy, which is considered fair game because of London's friendly policy toward Katanga, the mob battered down the doors, sacked the offices, and tried to pry off a coat of arms because, as one student...
...when Larrazábal's Air France 707 arrived, an uncontrollable mob of thousands overflowed the airport chanting "Viva Larrazábal" and "Down with Betancourt." In the crowd was TIME Correspondent Moisés Garcia, who was invited to ride with Larrazábal on the triumphant trip into Caracas. In the crush, Larrazábal's aides pulled Garcia in through a rear window while two Venezuelan National Guardsmen yanked on his legs to keep him out. Garcia was an eyewitness to the enthusiasm...
...State Department later explained that it is U.S. policy, as a rule, to deny asylum to foreigners in embassies abroad unless the person is in "imminent danger from mob violence." Josef Cardinal Mindszenty, Roman Catholic Primate of Hungary, was considered to qualify "under exceptional circumstances" when he won sanctuary in the U.S. legation during the 1956 uprising in Budapest, where he still lives...
...search of the father who had abandoned him and his impoverished mother years before. The highway, like the highways of Fielding or Smollett, yields a complete novelist's kit of cutpurses and murderers, madmen and saints. The hero is set upon by mastiffs, trampled to insensibility by a mob, and nearly deprived of his virginity by a jade. He meets a cold-eyed man accompanied by a pox-pitted villain named Scabbo; the two of them pursue him so murderously through the book that he is at one point forced to tear off Scabbo's right hand with...
...breeches." The General answers him in a curt note to the Queen: "My dear young lady: It is evident that Britain is the sick man of Europe." In Washington, a vengeful group of Rhodes scholars led by Dean Rusk tears the Mona Lisa to pieces. The Paris mob finds an elderly American lady who looks like Grandma Moses, and shreds her in retaliation. De Gaulle challenges Rusk to a duel...