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...Moise Tshombe, president of Katanga, hastily left his capital of Elisabethville when central government authorities picked up several valises full of his personal papers, which had been cached in the apartment of a Belgian called Mr. Christian. Among the items prompting Tshombe's sudden search for a healthier climate: documents indicating that he has funds tucked away in 15 banks in 13 countries ranging from Switzerland to the U.S. to Burundi...
...Hero to Emulate. He is Belgian-born Georges Schoeters, 33, a nervous, myopic member of the FLQ's five-man "leadership committee." Husky and humorless, Schoeters (he pronounces it scooters) arrived from Belgium in 1951, telling stories of how he was a teen-age partisan against the Nazis in World War II. With the help of a sympathetic University of Montreal sociology professor, he quickly learned English, then entered the university to study economics. All went well for a while until he suffered a nervous breakdown from which, as one friend said, he emerged with a "terrific instability...
...proposal for a NATO fleet of Polaris-firing surface ships manned by crews of several nationalities. "Utter and complete poppycock!" he cried in the House of Lords last week. "How," he snorted, "can a ship fight effectively if one-third of its crew is Portuguese, one-third Belgian and one-third, say, Danish? The thing is just not on. You might as well man a ship with a party of politicians...
...Rotten Triangle. The rebels, admitted a Portuguese officer, have "tremendously'' improved their tactics and firepower in recent months. Shuttling freely into Angola from Congolese bases across the 400-mile northern border, wily terrorist bands have replaced machetes and canhangulas, their crude, homemade muzzle-loaders, with Belgian Mausers, U.S. carbines and Czech machine guns. And, unlike Portugal's 50,000-man expeditionary force, they know every inch of the terrain. Says a longtime white administrator: "It would take 100,000 men to clean up the Triangle...
...economic cooperation. Such a grouping might help heal the rifts among the continent's current rival blocs-chief among them the left-leaning Casablanca group (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Algeria, Egypt), and the more moderate Monrovia group, now composed of Nigeria, Liberia, Sierra Leone, Ethiopia, the former Belgian Congo, and most of the former French dependencies...