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...crack," sighed one Western diplomat in the Congo last week. But Moise Tshombe was holding out as stubbornly as ever for his region's autonomy, and for the lion's share of the vast concession fees of Ka tanga's Belgian and British-controlled copper and cobalt riches. As U.S. Under Secretary of State George McGhee conferred patiently in Elisabethville, hoping to convince Tshombe that Katanga must return to the Congo fold, U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant published a U.N. report from Leopoldville which charged that Tshombe was beefing up his stout little army with additional...
Exports: Normally cobalt, copper, diamonds, palm oil, bananas. Per capita income: $90. U.S. aid (1961): $13.1 million. U.N. force defeated Communist efforts to infiltrate Congo, but has failed to end copper-rich Katanga's secession after two years. Even if once-prosperous country is reunited, it will take years to create a nation...
Questioning the validity of estimates which envision a two-week period in a shelter, Leon D. Bramson, moderator of the WHRB panel, raised the problem of the cobalt bomb...
...Cobalt, as I understand it, will remain radioactive in the atmosphere up to five years, so that the two-week period becomes a chimers," Bramson said. He also suggested that an attack might be made in a sequence of assaults that would force shelter inhabitants to remain under ground for extended periods of time...
...principle at least," replied Kistiakowsky, "one can create weapons which will make shelters less effective. If it is possible--and I'm not for a moment saying that it is--to shower radioactive cobalt in quantities large enough to make the radiation lethal all over the country-side, then a two-week shelter is not enough...