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...FEELING of powerlessness and economic discrimination reached a head in 1961 as a wave of nationalism swept across the African continent. A year before the Belgians had fled the neighboring Congo after only a brief uprising. Independence-minded Angolans now had a base in which they could safely plan their revolution...
...policy, for example, have been uninspiring. He has represented the President overseas on five major tours, but mostly in areas dominated by right-wing dictatorships, whose leaders he has flattered more than protocol demands. His praise of such oppressive black rulers as Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta and the Congo's Joseph Mobutu, suggesting that U.S. black leaders emulate them, was a major gaffe. He is even more hawkish on the war than Nixon, and his seeming willingness to escalate military conflict would make him a dangerous President. He even initially opposed Nixon's overtures to China...
Smaller Soviet military-assistance groups have been kicked out of Indonesia, Ghana, Albania, the Congo and the Sudan. Seldom since the Cuban missile crisis, however, have the Russians been handed such a stunning diplomatic slap over so important a suzerainty. Since the 1967 Arab-Israeli war, there have been few events in the Middle East that so upset the sullen status quo and opened the way for either resumption of a brutal war or renewed peace negotiations...
...eight months Mobutu Sese Seko (formerly known as Joseph Desire Mobutu), President of the former Belgian Congo, has been preoccupied with a search for national "authenticity." He has changed dozens of place names reminiscent of colonial times, and the country itself is now known as the Republic of Zaïre. Mobutu has also decreed that all Zaïrians-beginning with himself-should discard their Christian names in favor of "authentic" African ones. As a final symbol of the new order, Mobutu changed the principal national holiday from June 30-its independence day-to November 24, the anniversary...
Last week, twelve years after the Belgian Congo became independent and embarked on a period of chaos, civil war and primeval savagery that lasted for nearly eight years, TIME Correspondent John Blashill completed a 2,000-mile tour of the sprawling country. His report...