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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...remodeling of Jack's Harlem apartment. Jack also admitted that he had lied to the district attorney by saying that his wife paid for the job out of her $100-a-week "table money"-before finally settling on the explanation that Ungar had loaned the money without note or collateral. Indicted on charges of violating the city charter and of conspiracy, Jack declined to take the stand at the trial. But Operator Ungar, granted immunity from selfincrimination, testified that Jack had suggested the table-money story. And ex-Housing Czar Robert Moses repeated what he told the grand jury...
...week the jury of one Negro and eleven whites heard final characterizations of the chunky borough president by the defense ("a babe in the woods") and the prosecution ("plain cupidity"), and a lucid charge by Judge Joseph A. Sarafite. After filing into the jury room, they split wide open. Without once mentioning Jack's race (a sort of racism in reverse peculiar to hypersensitive Manhattan), they wrangled bitterly for almost 19 hours, finally deadlocked on all charges. "It was chaos," said one weary juror. "All we heard were pleas of sympathy for Jack." One of four pro-Jack jurors...
...strict disciplinarian, 2) replacement of all other Belgian officers and noncoms by Congolese, 3) general raises in pay and rank. Lumumba hastily agreed. In the most sweeping army promotion in history, he advanced every Congolese soldier by one grade, making the Force Publique the only army in the world without a single private...
...South Africa is now alone," warned Minister of Transport Barend Schoeman. Though the government is finally releasing 1,200 political prisoners detained since the riots without charges, South Africa's men of apartheid show no intention of changing their course. In fact, as soon as the Congo riots broke out last week, the Nationalist press briskly drew the lesson: this is what happens when the white man treats the black as an equal...
...Secretary of State Christian Herter. "We need expert advice, money and equipment. We have a shortage of trained workers. Our supplies of power and water are not at present adequate. Our transport system is far from perfect. But the British were good tutors. We have attained our independence without riots, without hatred...