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Whereupon Tshombe announced that unless Massamba-Debat immediately stopped supporting the Congolese rebels, some 50,000 Brazzaville citizens who live in Leopoldville would be deported. Tshombe's object: to overload Brazza ville's shaky economy, fan enough dis content to overthrow Massamba-Debat's already strife-torn government...
...tour of Stanleyville (pop. 300,000) showed that Tshombe had succeeded in winning the approval of at least some of the city folks. "Vive Tshombe!" they screamed as his caravan swept through Stanleyville's five African communes. One man even shouted, "Vive le Roi!" At Goma, in rebellion-torn Kivu Central province, Congolese literally hung from the trees to hear Tshombe speak. "Black blood has been flowing like wild animals," he told them. "I say to you: Kazi, kazi [work, work], and let the politicians do the talking. The important thing is to stop the rebellion. Bullets are flying...
...mischief, Churchill loved the House. When German bombs gutted it in 1941, Churchill stood amid the war-torn rubble for five minutes, tears running down his cheeks, then turned to an aide. "This chamber must be rebuilt-just as it was," he said quietly. At war's end, he laid the cornerstone...
...book, adapted from his own play by the late Clifford Odets just before he died, turns its original hero, Joe Bonaparte, an Italian boy torn between the warring worlds of art (represented by a possible career as a concert violinist) and commercial success (prizefighing) into Joe Wellington, a Negro with a racial chip weighing heavily on his shoulder and a desire to "show them who the hell I am." This change entails the loss of the conflict which informed and strengthened the entire texture of the earlier version. Only Joe's father remains, a stock conscience-figure who comments...
...dies despite her loving care-torn to pieces by a big yellow mongrel trained by the treacherous fur trader. In grief and fury Karana tracks the mongrel down and puts an arrow through him. But the brute, though deeply stricken, hangs onto life; and Karana, though rightfully revenged, begins by pitying and ends by nursing him. By the time he is well, she has come to love her enemy. Together they assail the seasons of their exile cheerfully, and make a life of what might otherwise have merely been a fate...