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...Congo chaos, though his goal in the Congo, as Secretary Herter also told the A.B.A., is the "collapse of order.'' Washington expected Khrushchev, just before or after his spell in the U.S., to visit the Cuba of U.S.-hating Fidel Castro, who last week told a mob he was now planning to recognize Communist China...
...plate-glass window; a white woman and a Negro woman got into a hair-pulling match, and the town boiled over. In a sudden rush of business. Sears Roebuck sold 50 ax handles in 15 minutes. Sit-in demonstrators on their way downtown were met by a club-wielding mob. By the time the police got around to stopping the riot, Jacksonville was suffering from an epidemic of broken heads...
...dictator in Leopoldville, he still had a long way to go before he could call himself master of his nation. From the lower Congo came word of mutinies among army units discontented with weeks of no pay or supplies. In the boondocks town of Moerbeke, an armed civilian mob set upon U.N. Moroccan troops. Breaching Hammarskjold's no-gunfire rule, the Moroccans opened fire, killing one Congolese-the first U.N.-caused death in the Congo...
...Teheran, Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlevi, occupant of Iran's jeweled Peacock Throne, listened to the somber reports of his people's wrath. The blatant rigging of Iran's latest parliamentary elections was too much, and the Shah had to act. Scarcely had the roar of the mob in Ayatollah Mohammed's garden died away when the Shah last week accepted the resignation of Premier Manouchehr Eghbal. whose conservative Nationalist Party had just scored an unbelievably lopsided election victory. Three days later, with the crowd still unappeased, the Shah made a more drastic concession. "It seems...
...were trucked in from the countryside to join Habaneras who were given a half-holiday for a "Date with the Fatherland." After the standard delay, during which the crowd of 300,000 sharpened its appetite by shouting "Fidel, give it to the Yankees," Castro arrived. He shouted to the mob, which he called "this free and sovereign assembly," that "no nation of Latin America tas dared to have diplomatic relations with the Popular Republic of [Communist] China. The Revolutionary Government wishes to ask the people if it wants to establish relations." The chant rose: "Si, si, si." Said Castro...