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...CONGO DIARY AND OTHER UNCOLLECTED PIECES by Joseph Conrad Edited by Zdzislaw Najder; Doubleday; 192 pages...
...Congo Diary traces the first autobiographical flutters of that sentence from Heart of Darkness. After more than ten years as a seaman and officer in the British merchant navy, Conrad signed a three-year contract with a Belgian company to serve on river steamboats that plied the Congo River. "Like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit tin" was his description of boats like...
Military uses-and abuses-of mind science A Defense Department study exploring the feasibility of using odor bombs in Asia suggested that a vegetarian tribe could be effectively sickened and confused by flooding the jungle with the concentrated body odor of meat eaters. During the 1960s Congo rebellion, another Pentagon study investigated the possibility of creating "special magic potions" for use by friendly Congolese troops. In Viet Nam, American forces distributed "propaganda soap" layered with anti-Viet Cong messages, and experimented at Cam Ranh Bay with dolphins in underwater surveillance and detection...
...debatable proposition that Zaïre, the former Belgian Congo, is the most ungovernable of African states. Having staved off the latest threat to its existence -an invasion of Shaba region by Angola-based Katangese secessionists-the U.S. and its Western allies turned to a larger problem: how to save the huge, resource-rich land from its awesome problems, and from itself...
...Africa to ominous dimensions. Some 43,000 Cuban troops, roughly one-third of his country's regular armed forces, are now stationed on the continent. In addition to the army-size units in Angola (20,000 troops) and Ethiopia (17,000 troops), there are contingents in Mozambique, the Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Libya and Tanzania. A sprinkling of civilian technicians and medical specialists is also scattered in Algeria, Benin, Cape Verde, Sierra Leone, Sao Tome and Principe...