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...called Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese who could read or write. Villages were put to the torch, and most of the colony's 60,000 natives fled across the border into former French and Belgian Congo. But even making a desert of Cabinda was not enough to end revolt. Last week a band of natives armed with homemade muzzle-loaders slipped back into Cabinda and ambushed a Portuguese patrol near Miconje...
...charging that there was a U.S. "plot" to use U.N. troops to crush Katanga and bring about the unification of the Congo. Stunned reporters were told that Katanga would "ask for and accept Russian help"-despite the fact that the Soviet Union has long denounced Tshombe as a "Belgian stooge" kept in power only by the backing of Western capitalists. European diplomats testily dismissed this attempted blackmail of the West and the U.N. as a piece of "dangerous skulduggery...
...north Schleswig village of Nolde (he did not change his name until he married, at 34, in 1901), he identified himself with the bleak environment of north Germany, acquiring an outer taciturnity and an inner turbulence shared by those other brooding giants of the north: Norwegian Edvard Munch and Belgian Recluse James Ensor. As a peasant lad, Nolde was early given to hallucinations. By night, "the cracks in the peeling walls became faces and fantastic shapes." By day, he imagined raging storms racing across the flat meadowland near the North...
...scientists were caught without an effective radio tracking setup. In the Congo crisis last summer, a Leopoldville ham picked up a message from a remote part of the Congo that said: "We need help; five women, eight children, four men cut off for days. Two women raped." Within hours, Belgian paratroopers were at the isolated farmhouse...
...other hand, Miss Denoux pointed out, Belgian rule in the Congo shared in some of the general failures of European colonization throughout Africa, notably in its failure to encourage a sense of Congolese national consciousness and in its policy of paternalism. The latter policy deprived the native population of a sense of responsibility and a will to act for themselves, she added. Miss Denoux argued that the problems of the newly emergent African nations require the assistance of all of the industrialized countries of the West, as well as the former colonial power...