— Portrait oi the Week— THE PRIME MINISTER OF JORDAN, Mr.
Hazza Magali, with a number of Jordan Foreign Office officials, was killed by time bombs in Amman. King Hussein said that he believed the bombs had been meant for him, that the assassins (whom he named) were in Syrian pay, and had fled to Syria, and that he would demand their extradition.
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THE. LAST BELGIAN TROOPS left the Congo, and the United States protested to the Congolese Government and the United Nations about the beating of American soldiers by Congolese. Fight- ing continued between Mr. Lumumba's forces and the supporters of the 'secessionist provinces °f Katanga and Kbsai. Mr. Lumumba said that United Nations forces must leave as soon as the Belgians had gone—'we don't want a Belgian fullyoccupation replaced by another one'—and grate- accepted a hundred lorries. a workshop, an unspecified number of 'instructors' and a 'cul- tural delegation' from the Soviet Government. This same philanthropic institution also promised India a new loan, of 500 million roubles. whereas President Eisenhower had to complain that the Congress cuts in foreign aid might well 'irre- trievably cripple' the foreign policy of the United States. There was further evidence in the Soviet Press of the ideological rift between the Soviet Union and Communist China that had led to the withdrawal of Soviet technicians, and rumours of a Communist 'summit' in North Korea in the winter. Moscow expelled another American diPlomatist, the second in three weeks, and com- plained that the 'spy-flights' from British bases had begun again.
l'it sl GERMAN GOVERNMENT imposed a partial blockade of Berlin during the refugee rallies _there. and forbade West Berliners and West kiermans to enter the eastern sector of the city. On the other hand, the flow of East German refugees to the West continued at the rate of 1.000 a week. The East German regime blamed the West Germans for tempting them over, whilst accusing them, at the same time, of restricting eontket between the two German States.
PHILIP asked to be kept informed of developments in the dispute between the Clerical and Administrative Workers' Union and the Automobile Association, a daring step that was interpreted by some shocked newspapers as royal interference in what didn't concern the royal ,President of one of the parties to the dispute. News from sea, air.and land is that the seamen's strike continued, that there was a brief unofficial strike of loaders at London Airport, and that the British Transport Commission rejected the railwaymen's claim for shorter hours. Mr. "ank Byers Was adopted as the Liberal can- didate for Bolton East, thus ending a truce with the Tories: Colonel Lort-Phillips (Lib.) and r. Michael Foot (Lab.). who looked like being rivals at Ebbw Vale. promised to march.(presum- ahlY in step) in the Edinburgh-to-London demon- stration by the Campaign for Nuclear Dis- armament.
* THE OPENING OF THE OLYMPIC GAMES marked
by death from heatstroke, allegations of drug- taking, complaints by the Chinese Nationalists against being billed as 'Taiwan,' accusations that one of the. Russians was a Red Chinese and one of the English girls an Englishman, and objec- tions by the Americans against the Australian winner of one of the swimming events. Six IYmPic 'hostesses' were sacked for 'extra- curricular fraternisation' with male athletes- Iltle of whom turned out to be an English girl.
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