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...Gobbi fell so far short in a performance of The Barber of Seville that the opera was booed to a halt after the second act. Newspapers the length of Italy argued the Parmensi's right to sound off, and last week 80 Teatro Regio regulars announced a temporary truce. They gave a grand reconciliation party in the Cafe Verdi to soothe harried Conductor Basile. But it was still uncertain whether opera in Parma would survive its own fans. Said one of the unrepentant faithful: "We're reconciling with Basile now so that we can start picking...
...downgrading the importance of Laos. Kennedy himself said, in a qualification that counted Laos out: "We can only defend the freedom of those who are ready to defend themselves." Actually, the new President had been caught in a talk-tough bluff aimed, at best, at achieving a pallid, precarious truce in Laos...
...could say how long the precarious truce in Katanga would last. The U.N.'s allegations already had prompted Tshombe to retaliate with angry charges of his own. Ominously, he announced that the central Congolese soldiers brought in by the U.N. were attacking villages in Katanga's north; if true, Katanga's own soldiers might soon start shooting again...
Palaver over Parley. In Elisabethville, the bitter little two-week war was, for the moment, over; only the scattered shots of occasional snipers broke the temporary truce. The U.N. was in control, having achieved its "limited objective" as defined by U.S. Under Secretary of State George Ball: "Freedom of movement for the peace-keeping forces, without the daily, bloody harassment by local Katanga troops, whipped into excited and irresponsible action by rumor, radio and beer." After that, it became the task of hard-working U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion to corral Tshombe, who had fled to the Northern Rhodesia border...
Converted Aristocrat. The division between masters and servants has grown so explosive that Peruvians from all factions are anxiously working to snip the fuse.* The most effective reformer so far has been Beltran, who holds power through a truce between the moderate right and anti-Communist left...