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Moise Tshombe, Katanga’s tough President, reportedly trying to enlist ex U.S. servicemen in his army. Proposed pay, according to Kenya reports: $1,000 per month for officers, $550 for NCO’s. … In Cuba, all schools were ordered last week to devote time in social studies class to honoring the late Patrice Lumumba. … An ex-Castro official has told U.S. authorities that 2,000 Cuban espionage agents are at work in the U.S. and that they report directly to a Soviet-controlled agency in Havana. . . . Another, and, on the face of it, logical version of why CBS cancelled, and later rescheduled, ’’The Spy Next Door.” It was blackmail, in the form of a Moscow threat to exclude CBS from USSR if the show was run. CBS first knuckled under, later reversed itself after strong pressure from sponsors plus public outcry.

Dewitt Copp and Marshall Peck, authors of Betrayal at the UN: The Story of Povl Bang-Jensen, invited to present their views to gathering of UN correspondents. Invitation later withdrawn because Tass correspondents considered subject “too controversial.” . . . Just out, John Dos Passos’ latest novel, Midcentury, (Houghton-Mifflin), a chapter of which first appeared in NR [“The Analyst, “ Dec. 17, I960].

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Moise Tshombe, Katanga’s tough President, reportedly trying to enlist ex U.S. servicemen in his army. Proposed pay, according to Kenya reports: $1,000 per month for officers, $550 for NCO’s. … In Cuba, all schools were ordered last week to devote time in social studies class to honoring the late Patrice Lumumba. … An ex-Castro official has told U.S. authorities that 2,000 Cuban espionage agents are at work in the U.S. and that they report directly to a Soviet-controlled agency in Havana. . . . Another, and, on the face of it, logical version of why CBS cancelled, and later rescheduled, ’’The Spy Next Door.” It was blackmail, in the form of a Moscow threat to exclude CBS from USSR if the show was run. CBS first knuckled under, later reversed itself after strong pressure from sponsors plus public outcry.

Dewitt Copp and Marshall Peck, authors of Betrayal at the UN: The Story of Povl Bang-Jensen, invited to present their views to gathering of UN correspondents. Invitation later withdrawn because Tass correspondents considered subject “too controversial.” . . . Just out, John Dos Passos’ latest novel, Midcentury, (Houghton-Mifflin), a chapter of which first appeared in NR [“The Analyst, “ Dec. 17, I960].