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Until recently, sea-oriented old "Gitmo," the besieged 45-sq.-mi. U.S. enclave on the southeast coast of Communist Cuba, counted only 300 combat marines, and their vintage M1 rifles were hardly a match for fast-firing Belgian weapons sported by Castro's militia. Now Guantánamo is grimly digging...
...immediate and rapid economic development programs will save the Congo from a new outbreak of hostilities, A. Van Bilsen, a former Belgian advisor to Congolese President Joseph bu, declared last night...
...Bilsen maintained that "intense" economic development under Belgian had "radicalized" the Congolese . "The Congo must move rapidly because it cannot move slowly. . . . The people demand change. If it cannot find to move ahead, one can predict revolution," he declared...
...Bilsen may get the opportunity to participate in such an aid project soon, reportedly will assume an important post in the Belgian foreign aid administration when he returns to Brussels in April...
Later, the Afro-Asians showed similar restraint about the rebellious Portuguese colony of Angola and about Ruanda-Urundi, the little Belgian-run territory east of the Congo that is due to get freedom next July 1. One proposal would have ordered Belgian troops to leave by that date, but U Thant pointed out that neither the U.N. nor the new country itself could possibly train troops quickly enough to keep law and order; sensibly, the Africans and Asians last week rewrote their motion to let the Belgians stay on temporarily-thereby avoiding what could have been another Congo...