Word: congo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Congo, commercial TV goes socially conscious. First of a four-part series on African culture and history, narrated by Julian Bond. 8, Sat., Chan...
Sounds for Peace, a benefit concert sponsored by the Beacon Hill Support Group for Vietnam Peace Action. Rock groups, some from the Black Musicians Workshop; folk singers Bonnie & Doug. and Rose; piano-and-flute team; congo drums players; others. At the Paulist Center Auditorium, on Park St. opposite the Common...
...Portugese navigator Diego Cao discovered the mouth of the Congo River, went ashore, and made envoys to the largest kingdom of West Central Africa: the Kongo. Relations with the Kongolese were friendly at first, and the African lords permitted the Portugese to gain a foothold for their slave trading with colonies across the Atlantic. But soon the Kongolese came to have misgivings about the Portugese designs, and open warfare broke out. In 1665 the Portugese Army crushed the Kongolese army in a decisive battle at Mbwila...
When the Org became the official espionage service of West Germany in 1956, Gehlen became a global caterer. He and the END - the Org's new name - discreetly contracted themselves out to Tanzania, Afghanistan and the Congo. The secret services of Israel and Egypt alike found occasion to use Gehlen's services...
...name of the game is names in the newly renamed Zaïre Republic, formerly Republic of the Congo. When President Joseph Mobutu announced a "return to Zaïre authenticity" last month and changed his name to one with a more African sound, Mobutu-Sese-Seko (TIME, Jan. 24), many of Zaïre's citizens loyally followed suit. But then came a word of caution to the nation's 8,000,000 Roman Catholics from Joseph Cardinal Malula. 54, Archbishop of Kinshasa and one of Africa's three black cardinals. Malula, though long an advocate...