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Just as in Zola's day, it was jobs and bread that the miners wanted. The spontaneous strike was called to protest the decision of the Belgian National Coal Board to close down eight of 13 Borinage mines and to limit production in the remaining five to 8,000 tons daily. Yet the decision has long been inevitable and was postponed only because successive governments feared to make...
Across the Congo River in last month's riots in the Belgian city of Léopoldville, it had been black v. white. In Brazzaville last week it was black v. black, and bloodier. Less than three months after voting for autonomy within the French Community, the new Congo Republic was already learning the perils of being...
Died. Pierre Ryckmans, 67, Belgian High Commissioner for Atomic Energy, onetime (1934-46) Governor General of the Belgian Congo and later Belgium's Permanent Representative to the United Nations Trusteeship Council; of cancer; in Brussels...
...cover his car with kisses, he has stirred up the whole territory by screaming for an end to the Federation of Rhodesia and Nyasaland, has already picked out a name - Malawi - for an African federation that would include Nyasaland, Tanganyika, Uganda, and parts of Northern Rhodesia, Mozambique, and the Belgian Congo. "We must fill their prisons ," he tells his shrieking followers. "We must go singing hallelujah. That's the way to get freedom...
...Latin phrases, he once gained enormous prestige by announcing just before an eclipse that he would perform the miracle of blotting out the sun. His dream is of a "United States of Latin Africa" embracing all of French Equatorial Africa, as well as parts of Portuguese Angola and the Belgian Congo. Of Africa's present boundaries, he says: "We are not responsible for the mistakes of the explorers...