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...last 143 United Nations troops pulled out of the Congo last week, a departing Nigerian captain sniffed: "It's high time the Congolese put on their thinking caps for themselves." Actually, there were plenty of thinking caps being worn in that chaotic nation, but the thoughts they generated had little to do with one another. Everybody was certainly thinking the same question: Who could and/or would finally lead the Congo to stability...
...Hated. As the leader of copper-rich Katanga province's abortive secession, finally crushed by the U.N., he had been damned as a traitor to African nationalism and a stooge of the Belgians. But last week the stooge was being praised as a possible savior. In the chaotic Congo, that made as much sense as anything else...
...poet, who wrote of a small sculpture that he kept in his office: "Shall my soul meet so severe a curve, journeying on its way to form?" The question was answered at Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, on Sept. 18, 1961, when his airplane crashed during a tour of the chaotic Congo. The sculpture was by Barbara Hepworth, 61, Britain's top woman artist. Last week another Hepworth bronze appeared at the United Nations...
Confusing? Worse than that. Chaotic. But in that chaos, former Bell & Howell Board Chairman Charles Percy, 44, the G.O.P. nominee for Governor against Kerner, saw opportunity. He reached for it in a fashion that should disprove the notion that youthful, well-scrubbed, idealistic Chuck Percy is more an Eagle Scout than a tough politician...
...even the semblance of an anti-Communist government. But Washington is beginning to realize that most of the complaints made against Diem can be made against Khanh: he has not rallied the people, he is out of touch with the countryside, he is a poor administrator, his finances are chaotic-and lately, the same old crowd that hounded Diem has even accused Buddhist Khanh of being beastly to Buddhists...