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...endorsement of an anti-Viet Nam War statement by the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee. The majority opinion branded the SNCC statement "a call to action based on race ... It aligns the civil rights organization with 'colored people in such other countries as the Dominican Republic, the Congo, South America and Rhodesia...
...many of the eleven years that Mobutu Sese Seko, 46, has ruled Zaïre, that huge central African country (once known as the Belgian Congo) has dined out on its promise of wealth. The country's enormous, and still largely unexploited, deposits of copper served as a kind of collateral on which Zaïre managed to borrow extensively abroad. It now owes $2.9 billion, $800 million of which is due private lenders in the U.S., Europe and Japan. But instead of achieving steady growth, Zaïre became a textbook example of how a Third World nation...
...result, three major projects have languished. A $500 million hydroelectric power transmission line that is supposed to snake over 1,200 miles of forest and bush from the Zaïre River (once the Congo) to the copper belt in Shaba (formerly Katanga) is far behind schedule. Construction of a huge addition to the state-owned Gécamines copper mine, financed by the World Bank, the European Investment Bank and the Libyan government, is 18 months late. Work has stopped on the giant new Tenke-Fungurume copper mine, and international backers are handing over $750,000 a month just...
...prospects for white-ruled Rhodesia after it becomes black Zimbabwe rest squarely on the ability of the nationalist factions to unite around a responsible leader. A decade ago, white settlers all over Africa shuddered at the thought of "another Congo" in their midst. Today, African observers wonder if in the splintered makeup of the Rhodesian nationalists there could be the seeds of another Angola. As always in Africa, the qualities of the man who emerges as leader will be all-important ? in determining whether the country will undergo an orderly transition, and whether enough whites will remain to help...
...young countries. Zaïre has known a lot of turbulence in the past-secessions, rebellions, civil war, and that is what I feel is going on in Angola. There was much more violence than we had, much more vested interest from the outside than in 1960 [in the Congo]. The thing that concerns us is the quantity of heavy sophisticated arms and equipment that the Russians and Cubans have amassed in that country. We cannot, in the face of that, be indifferent. [But] I really don't think the Russians and Cubans intend to repeat their Angola experience...