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Significant straws at the Republican governors’ anti-Dean Burch hootenanny in Denver: Liberal Gov. Mark Hatfield did not form part of the lynch mob ; canny Gov. James Rhodes of Ohio didn’t show up at all. Hatfield’s moderation evoked angry comment from the Rockefeller-Romney-Smylie-Scranton cabal, but could pay off politically later on. . . . Not to be overlooked as possible GOP candidate in ’ 68 (well, almost possible) is Colorado’s able young Sen. Peter Dominick. … House Speaker John McCormack has, in effect, warned gung-ho Democratic Liberals that he may not go along with proposals to change the seniority rules in the House. “Some of my Liberal friends,” he commented, when asked about the proposed changes, “want to own me.”

Wound-up-in-his-own-rhetoric-Dept., Foreign Minister Ousmane Ba of Mali. He charged in emotional UN speech that the powers that initiated the mercy air-drop into Stanleyville were also in effect responsible for the “murder of Patrice Lumumba,” “the death of Dag Hammarskjold” and “the assassination of John F. Kennedy.” . . . Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, in his rebuttal, revealed that intercepted messages from “President” Gbenye of the rebel forces had ordered the Simbas to “devour” the foreign prisoners or “to put barrels of gasoline in front of their doors and grill them alive. ” . . . Nigeria was only African government to speak out in favor of the U.S.-Belgian mission. . . . Latest figures indicate that the rebels murdered 20,000 people, most of them Congolese. Nearly 5,000 died in and around Stanleyville alone.

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Significant straws at the Republican governors’ anti-Dean Burch hootenanny in Denver: Liberal Gov. Mark Hatfield did not form part of the lynch mob ; canny Gov. James Rhodes of Ohio didn’t show up at all. Hatfield’s moderation evoked angry comment from the Rockefeller-Romney-Smylie-Scranton cabal, but could pay off politically later on. . . . Not to be overlooked as possible GOP candidate in ’ 68 (well, almost possible) is Colorado’s able young Sen. Peter Dominick. … House Speaker John McCormack has, in effect, warned gung-ho Democratic Liberals that he may not go along with proposals to change the seniority rules in the House. “Some of my Liberal friends,” he commented, when asked about the proposed changes, “want to own me.”

Wound-up-in-his-own-rhetoric-Dept., Foreign Minister Ousmane Ba of Mali. He charged in emotional UN speech that the powers that initiated the mercy air-drop into Stanleyville were also in effect responsible for the “murder of Patrice Lumumba,” “the death of Dag Hammarskjold” and “the assassination of John F. Kennedy.” . . . Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, in his rebuttal, revealed that intercepted messages from “President” Gbenye of the rebel forces had ordered the Simbas to “devour” the foreign prisoners or “to put barrels of gasoline in front of their doors and grill them alive. ” . . . Nigeria was only African government to speak out in favor of the U.S.-Belgian mission. . . . Latest figures indicate that the rebels murdered 20,000 people, most of them Congolese. Nearly 5,000 died in and around Stanleyville alone.