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...divisions. Against these, the Soviet Union has 20 Russian and six German divisions poised in East Germany, could throw another 20 or more divisions into action within a week's time. NATO is especially weak on the northern flank of the Seventh Army, where understrength British, Dutch and Belgian units guard the invasion routes across the flat plains...
...insist, in every article about Katanga, on talking about "mercenaries" and "white-officered troops." And what do you mean by "white"? South Africans, Rhodesians, Congo Belgians, Algerian French born and bred in Africa, probably for two, three or more generations, who have lived and worked their whole life in Africa, are Africans. A white Katangan of Belgian extraction can have the genuine patriotism for Katanga that an American Negro or American of Polish extraction can have for America...
...priority list. Also, free movement of labor within the Market area is still more theoretical than real. The Community has provided migrant workers with comprehensive social security, but the age-old reluctance of workers to move persists, though Italian workers now provide more than 60% of the Belgian mining industry's labor force. The fact is, unemployment is so low all over the Community that few workers need to migrate. The Market's boom has even reduced chronically underemployed Italy's jobless total to a bare...
...Albertina, a white DC-6 used by the U.N. in the Congo. Hammarskjold's main concern, on takeoff, was ominous: his plane had to cross territory controlled by a marauding Katanga jet fighter known as "The Lone Ranger." The pilot, thought to be Rhodesian or an English-speaking Belgian, had been terrorizing U.N. garrisons since the beginning of the fighting, had even made strafing passes at a press conference given by U.N. Katanga Commander Conor Cruise O'Brien in Elisabethville...
...Elba, was marching up to Paris to begin the historic Hundred Days, which were to end with Waterloo. And as Napoleon approached-"the Eagle flying from steeple to steeple," rallying to his standard the regiments sent against him-King Louis XVIII, fat and fatuous, was fleeing north toward the Belgian border amid a confusion of loyal musketeers and grenadiers...