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...past, nor strong tribal ties. To reassure whites, he recently formed a "committee of intervention" composed of army men, government officials and whites whose job is to discourage racial strife. He has also removed the radical leadership of his wild Jeunesse (youth) movement, whose members last summer sacked the Belgian embassy and menaced whites in the streets of Kinshasa, the capital...
...Congo. The Union Minière mining empire, now nationalized and called Gecomin, is operating almost at full capacity; half of the company's white technicians have stayed on to help run it. Belgium has agreed to resume its $70 million aid program, which it suspended after the Belgian embassy was stormed. About half of the 1,200 Belgian teachers, whose exodus from the Congo crippled the country's schools and three universities, are now planning to come back to areas where Mobutu can assure their safety...
...Organization was formed 18 years ago, there was no question about its need or its purpose. That was to stop an expanding Communist empire from taking over Western Europe. As NATO inaugurated its new $8,000,000 headquarters in Brussels last week, the situation was entirely different. "Today," said Belgian Diplomat Jean-Paul van Bellinghen, "our only enemies are among us-those who are not ready to sacrifice a part of their independence to cooperate in a common work...
Died. Albert Hustin, 85, Belgian chemist who in 1914 discovered that citrate of sodium would prevent bottled blood from clotting, thereby opening the door to blood banks; in Brussels...
...private mercenary brigade that has managed to bully the Congo government for three months agreed last week to pack up and leave the country. Belgian Planter Jean Schramme and his force of 150 white "meres" and 1,000 black Katangese have controlled the town of Bukavu in Kivu province and the territory around it, ever since they hurled back battalions of Congolese troops sent to put down their revolt. They have managed to keep the Congo government on edge with their threats, raised doubt about the effectiveness of law in the bush, and sullied the prestige of President Joseph Mobutu...