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BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). All jazz breaks loose in the pastoral Belgian village of Comblain la Tour, site of last summer's International Jazz Festival, highlights of which are shown here. With Benny Goodman, Germany's Gunther Hampel Quintet, England's Long John Baldry...
Congo President Joseph Mobutu last week nationalized the Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, the Belgian company that provided a living for 100,000 Congolese, accounted for about one-half of the government's revenues and 70% of the nation's foreign exchange. He thus took revenge on an institution that he held responsible for Moise Tshombe's Katanga secession in 1961, and that he charged with bilking the Congo out of its rightful share of the company's profits...
...rancor from past struggles, however, neither side is anxious for a real crunching showdown. While Nasser may have succeeded in running Suez without the British, Mobutu knows that keeping Union Minière's complex operations going himself would be almost impossible. He has appealed to young Belgian technicians "of good will" to stay on the job, and the company is asking its managers to cooperate for the time being in running the mines. If nothing else, Union Minière is anxious not to drive Mobutu into nationalizing other extensive enterprises in the Congo owned by its parent...
Ideal Solution. The Belgian government stayed out of the affair, fearing that racial strife could break out and endanger the 45,000 Belgians in the Congo. The ideal solution to the impasse would be an agreement by Union Minière that the nationalization was the legitimate action of an independent nation, and by the Congo that compensation is a part of any legitimate nationalization. If that should happen, Union Minière could probably be recruited to continue marketing Congolese copper at a healthy profit to itself. If an agreement cannot be reached, the Congo is in for some...
...proletarian prince was even more amiable when De Gaulle took him and his Foreign Minister, Andrei Gromyko, hunting in what was once the preserve of royalty. For the occasion, Kosygin had brought along a turtleneck sweater, a quilted jacket and his own Belgian-made Herstal over-and-under shotgun. Gromyko cut a different figure: gun in hand he tramped through the fields in business suit, grey fedora and dark topcoat. Still, he proved a good shot. In any case, the forests of De Gaulle's Rambouillet chateau are well stocked for just such occasions...