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Returning to Amsterdam, Kortlandt organized a three-man expedition to Guinea, equipped it with cameras and an experimental tool of his own design: a stuffed leopard animated by a windshield-wiper mechanism that moved its head and tail. Hiding in the bush, Kortlandt's crew waited until a group of about 30 chimps passed nearby and then pulled the mock leopard into view. "Hell broke loose," says Zoologist Jo Van Orshoven, a member of the expedition. "With enormous yelling and hooting they started to attack the leopard in an organized and coordinated...
...foot floods washed through the streets, cutting electricity and water service, destroying food and-such is the temper of the place-ruining large caches of ammunition stored secretly in many homes. The downpour, the worst in recorded history, delayed for a while the arrival of some distinguished visitors: a three-man team of United Nations observers sent to investigate the difficulties that Aden is experiencing in its transition to independence from Britain in 1968. The visitors might as well have stayed at home. Violence, too, was at full flood in Aden...
Confronted with continual Congressional opposition to a home rule bill for the District of Columbia, President Johnson has now made his own proposal to replace the city's present three-man Board of Commissioners. The measure differs significantly from traditional home-rule proposals, which would give Washington citizens the right to elect their own city government...
While the three-man committee, headed by Under Secretary of State Nicholas Katzenbach, defended the need for secret financing when CIA started the practice 15 years ago, it concluded that this is now outdated and unnecessary. Enough private foundations currently exist to give financial aid to most needy groups. For those that are unable to find such help or that seem especially worthy, the Katzenbach committee recommended that a public-private organization-perhaps like the Smithsonian Institution-be created...
...Federation's steering committee decided last night to set a deadline for submitting signatures in the first week after Spring vacation, the week of April 9. The Federation's three-man executive committee might present the petition to the University administration as early as that same week...