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Temporary Discomfort. Mobutu's hand was being strengthened, too, by the return of hundreds of Belgians, who were coming into Léopoldville last week by the planeful, reopening their musty shops and returning to the advisory jobs with the Congolese government which they had been scheduled to occupy under the original independence agreement. Drilling the Congolese army day after day, a handful of returned Belgian army officers last week turned it out 3,000 strong for a snappy if belated Armistice Day parade. As he brought the troops into the line of march on Boulevard Albert...
...return of the Belgians is openly encouraged by both Kasavubu and Mobutu, whose recruiters in Brussels are busy lining up as many as possible of the 10,000 Belgian technicians who planned to stay in the Congo before last summer's army mutiny. In New York, top U.N. officials have coldly charged that all this represents a Belgian attempt to regain power in the Congo-an accusation to which Belgian Foreign Minister Pierre Wigny hotly replied last week with the implicit threat of a Belgian walkout from the U.N. But many a rank-and-file U.N. worker...
...Nation's Future (NBC, 9:30-10:30 p.m.). In this week's debate and panel discussion, Biologist Sir Julian Huxley represents the affirmative on the question, "Is international birth control needed to head off world disaster?"; Belgian Demographer Jacques Mertens de Wilmars is the nay sayer...
...Belgian doctors were quickly followed in their flight by Belgian public health inspectors and sanitation engineers, and the result was both inevitable and 'catastrophic. From the far corners of the sprawling nation, ominous reports began filtering back to Léopoldville: eruptions of bubonic and pneumonic plague, outbreaks of smallpox, widespread increases in serious but less spectacular diseases such as malaria, filariasis, meningitis and pneumonia...
...Unknown Animal. By current Congolese standards one of the bright spots in the nation's health picture is Beni -a village at the northeast tip of remote Kivu province. Beni's modern. Belgian-built hospital is staffed by two physicians on loan from the Irish Red Cross; a new X-ray machine and cases of operating-room equipment are stacked against its walls, and the dispensary is equipped with large stocks of antimalaria drugs. But the U.N.'s Irish doctors found the Belgians had made no attempt to control the spread of malaria by clearing swamps...