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...forced horror-struck natives to violate tribal taboos, and so bound them to the movement by cutting them off from all else. Some of the grisly Mau Mau oath-taking rites called for copulation with sheep, eating the flesh of exhumed corpses or drinking the "Kaberi-chia cocktail," a blend of semen, menstrual blood and sheep's blood...
When Red Chinese Ambassador to Cairo Chen Chia-kang arrived in Leopoldville last July to visit the new Patrice Lumumba government, he found an eager ally in Communist-leaning Vice Premier Antoine Gizenga. While Lumumba appealed to the Russians for planes and technicians, Gizenga asked the ambassador for arms and volunteers from China. Chen cautiously offered cash and advice instead, as his Peking colleagues have done in Guinea, Ghana and Morocco. For, though the Red Chinese might be prepared to stir up real strife later, their present limited goal in Africa seems to be quiet infiltration behind the scenes...
...independent Singapore's first Prime Minister last June, set out on a crime cleanup, but even so, all forms of lawlessness have increased in Singapore this year, and already there have been 55 murders, v. 38 all last year. A month ago, when Triad hoodlums kidnaped Chinese Millionaire Chia Yee Soh and got a fat ransom for his return, Lee and his Cabinet declared all-out war on the gangs...
Died. Chang Chia Hutukhtu, 64, among the most important "Living Buddhas" (not to be confused with Baltimore resident Dilowa Hutukhtu who defended Far East expert Owen Lattimore in 1950 against charges of aiding Communists in China, and who is known as the "Living Buddha of Mongolia"), spiritual leader of thousands of monks and millions of Buddhists in east and north China but outranked by Tibet's Dalai and Panchen Lamas; of cancer; in Taipeh. He went to Taiwan seven years ago, served as senior adviser to Chiang Kaishek. His followers, with clues Chang wrote down just before he died...
...power of Mao Tse-tung is virtually immune to anti-Stalinism, according to Harvard-educated Ping-chia Kuo, because Mao has never allowed his followers to build around him the kind of leadership cult that apotheosized Stalin or, before him, Nationalist China's Sun Yat-sen. "The Chinese people are more rational than religious," the author writes, and "Mao understands the temperament of the Chinese too well to attempt the role of a Fuhrer." Kuo obviously gets carried away when he talks of the "basic humanism" and "tolerance" of the Chinese Communist regime and its "democratic spirit...