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...Touré and Ghana's President Kwame Nkrumah rushed out statements of support for Lumumba's Congo government, offered to mobilize their minuscule armed forces to help throw the Belgians out. "This," announced Touré, "is henceforth the responsibility of African soldiers." But the sharpest cut of all came from the weather-vane Congo government, whose Cabinet only a few hours earlier had voted full confidence in Dag. From Premier Lumumba, still off on his travels, came instructions to his Cabinet colleagues to demand the immediate departure of all U.N. troops from the Congo. After all, he said...
...Minute Peace. Washington officials, who had expected a ranting fanatic, found instead a poised, almost impassive, man who could respond politely and correctly in slightly accented French to Herter's welcoming speech without recourse to notes or text, who faced a roomful of U.S. correspondents and fielded their sharpest questions with calm confidence, urbanely parried questions he did not choose to answer. Sometimes, he spoke with disarming candor. "I was sitting around my office with the country exploding around me," he explained. "It took me just five seconds to decide that the only place to go was the United...
...sharpest manifestation, the virus sets off an encephalitis (brain inflammation) so severe that it may cause death -or, worse, such sweeping damage that the victim survives only as an idiot or at the level of a vegetable. How many such cases there are is not known...
...sharpest spur in the Kennedy camp's intense drive to put Jack over on the first ballot was the lurking fear that Lyndon Johnson was probably right in his prediction that if Jack failed to win on an early ballot his strength would start to wane. To help ensure a first-ballot victory, Jack Kennedy had offered Adlai Stevenson a chance to be Secretary of State in the Kennedy Administration. Kennedy was furious when Stevenson temporized...
...opinion, have stayed so thick. Even the recent diplomatic disasters have done nothing to impair the Eisenhower image or ignite the country to the perils of complacency. Last week, following Ike's mild radio-TV report to the nation, Reston could stand no more. In perhaps the sharpest words he has ever written about Dwight Eisenhower, Reston delivered a wholesale indictment of the President's speech...