Word: bushings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stevenson did not have to be told what the unexpected business was-the news ticker had told of it an hour earlier. A battered corpse lay buried at the bottom of a secret grave thousands of miles away in the desolate eastern Congo bush. Patrice Lumumba, ex-beer salesman, ex-embezzler, ex-Premier, was dead. Russia was obviously preparing to make the most of it, and Stevenson quickly got on the telephone to tell Washington to brace itself for the onslaught...
...only trace of the vanished VIP was the cops' black Ford itself. Somewhat battered, it was found on the road 45 miles from the scene of the escape. Perhaps, suggested the Katangese, Lumumba was trudging through the bush in the hope of reaching Bukamu, a Katanga town held by the pro-Lumumba rebels. But this was 200 miles away, a tough week's walk for a city lad like Lumumba...
...some 2,000 stayed on. Sheltered by the natives, many of whom were openly hostile to the government in Rangoon, the troops married local women, made a living by processing opium in homemade stills set up in the bush. Occasionally they slipped across the Red Chinese frontier to pillage border villages. The bandits' activities were a troublesome irritant to the Burmese government, which feared that the rebels' raids might provoke Red China into moving into Burma against them in force. Said one Burmese army officer: "We simply have to get rid of those guys...
...supply Congolese revolutionaries, he is also driving to extend his influence southward through religion. Islam, with an estimated 88 million African followers, is the continent's biggest religion, far surpassing Christianity with its 34 million. Nasser is out to convince 75 million Africans who still worship old bush gods that Christianity is tainted with "imperialism," that Islam is the only faith fit for a free Africa. Says one Cairo tract, printed in Swahili and other African languages: "Christian missionaries preach one wife to you in order to make your race diminish. Islam permits four wives." So all-corrupting...
Cuba's Communists were bragging. As butchers go, they are still bush league. But Castro is trying hard. To the 587 listed and the many concealed killings over the past two years, the dictatorship last week added the lives of two more Cubans, both onetime armymen accused of rebellion. At week's end six more men-American youths allegedly planning to join the growing rebellion-were tried with the death penalty demanded...