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...would be a crime to leave, like the Belgians did in the Congo," said a foreign ministry spokesman last March...
...legend of the "vast food-growing potential" [April 8] of the Amazon and Congo basins dies hard. It is a hydra of error, espoused in times past by such luminaries as Walter Lippmann and Richard Nixon...
...older generation, as giving up the Algarve. For half a millennium the territories had been part of Portugal, romantic symbols of the country's rich past. If the Portuguese should leave now, some hardliners have further insisted, the territories would suffer the same fate that befell the Congo when the Belgians left. "It would be a crime to leave, as the Belgians did," one such rightwinger argues. "The natives would just kill and eat each other...
...After reading TIME'S article on world inflation, I would add that a thorough program of worldwide birth control should be employed if new agricultural areas (i.e., the Amazon and Congo basins) are to be developed by technologically advanced methods...
...exotic modes of conveying meaning has led him to Italy, where he compiles a graphic lexicon of the language of gesture ("Sicilians take the Fifth by raising their chins slowly... Fondle the back of your ear and somebody's a pederast.") Venturing even further afield, he travels to the Congo for a first-hand encounter with African drum language, only to have his experimental message. "Notre Dame has the best team of all," emerge back into English as "The lady if ever she had a weak body, now she has strong...