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...World parks in Orlando, San Diego, and Aurora, Ohio. Appalachian cabins never gleamed so spiffily as at Dolly Parton's new Dollywood in Pigeon Forge, Tenn. Country music rarely sounded so all-fired wholesome as it does at Nashville's Opryland. No city zoo ever boasted rides like the Congo River Rapids, the Stanleyville Falls flume or the vertigo-inducing Scorpion--all to be found at Busch Gardens in Tampa. Early Christians never found accommodations as plush as the ones at the "21st century Christian campground" of Heritage USA near Fort Mill, S.C. As for the twin fountainheads of theme...
...Duvalier in Haiti made less vivid TV. Cameras could show the undernourished Haitian country people, happy but still fearful, but much of the expression of their emotions got lost in translation. The problem was once wryly summed up in a book title by Edward Behr, who had covered the Congo: Anyone Here Been Raped and Speaks English...
...route to the U.S. in 1960 as part of the entourage accompanying Nikita Khrushchev, Shevchenko hears the bumptious Premier mutter threats against the life of then U.N. Secretary-General, Dag Hammarskjold, who died mysteriously in a plane crash in the Congo a year later...
While Cuba was a subject that gave him pleasure, the Congo was an annoyance to him. Throughout the voyage he was obsessed with the U.N.'s involvement in the Congo, especially the performance of the U.N. peace-keeping troops there and the activities of Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold. "I spit on the U.N.," he raged. "It's not our organization. That good-for-nothing Ham (the Russian word for boor applied as a nickname to the U.N. chief) is sticking his nose in important affairs which are none of his business. He has seized authority that doesn't belong...
Khrushchev's personal threat against Hammarskjold returned to my memory in September 1961, when the Secretary-General died in a mysterious plane crash in the Congo. Friends working on African affairs once told me they had seen a top-secret KGB report indicating that the aircraft had been shot down by pro- Soviet Congolese forces penetrated and guided by operatives from the U.S.S.R...