Word: bushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...northern Congo, weeds and wild bush snaked across roads traveled only by stealthy bands of marauding army deserters. In Leopoldville, garbage piled high and the prevailing scent came from the sewers. Jealous rivals have sliced the Congo into six distinct nominally independent "nations," and in each juju magic and ritual murder are becoming the savage law of the countryside, just as they had been when Henry Morton Stanley arrived...
...wall. Dr. G. E. Pieters, a Belgian who signed the death certificates, had no doubts about the identity of the principal victim ("You'd recognize that goatee and those bulging eyes anywhere"). Asked how the men had died, he replied: "What happened between my entry into the bush and my return is a medical secret. The code of the doctor forbids me to speak." But he admitted to a reporter, "The bodies were not fresh...
...came word that swarms of Africans hurled themselves against a police station and were methodically mowed down by automatic weapons in the hands of paratroops and police. A Luanda cab driver told reporters that he saw five trucks loaded with corpses driven out to a mass burial in the bush. The prison attacked in earlier rioting still "stank like a charnel house" even after being cleared of dead bodies, said one Angolan. While tanks and armored cars patrolled the streets at night and Portuguese gunboats and planes combed the coastline, a doctor said wearily, "I don't know...
...latest caper in Canadian colleges is bed pushing. Born at the University of Rhodesia, and perfected-as was last year's college craze, phone-booth stacking -at South Africa's University of Natal, it spread over some sort of Commonwealth bush telegraph. Last week Canadian college students from Nova Scotia to British Columbia were indefatigably mounting beds on wheels and pushing them over highways, prairies and frozen lakes. The current world's record of 1,000 continuous miles is claimed by a team from Ontario's Queens University, which kept its Simmons rolling day and night...
Died. Patrice Hemery Lumumba, 35, goateed, bespectacled Batetela tribesman who was a mission school student, postal clerk, embezzler and beer salesman before he became a successful demagogue and the first Premier of the Congo; said to have been murdered by bush villagers after he "escaped"' from jail; in an as yet undisclosed place in Katanga province (see FOREIGN NEWS...