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...leaders have never exactly venerated the institution. Leery of its peace-keeping attempts, Chou has derisively called the U.N. "an international gendarmerie." In a recent interview in a Japanese newspaper, the Mao regime's leading intellectual, Kuo Mojo, called the U.N. a "dangerous slaughterhouse," citing its interventions in the Congo and Korea...
...kind of Russian roulette remained too a factor in my later life, so that without previous experience of Africa I went on an absurd and reckless trek through Liberia: it was the fear of boredom which took me to Tabasco during the religious persecution, to a leproserle in the Congo, to the Kikutu reserve during the Mau-Mau insurrection, to the emergency in Malaya and to the French war in Vietnam. There, in those last three regions of clandestine war, the fear of ambush served me just as effectively as the revolver from the corner cupboard in the lifelong...
...each other out. An actor who gets too caught up in a speech can drop out of character. But Ann Whiteside, as Mary Moylan stands out in her management of the problem, letting her temper run wild as she describes her anger at discovering that American planes bombing the Congo had "mistakenly" hit two unprotected villages in Uganda. Real anger may not be enough onstage, but Ann Whiteside's anger is so well-transformed into the anger of Mary Moylan that, at least for a moment, the years and the distance between the Cambridge stage and the Maryland courtroom...
Social Secretary. Despite her Congo exploits, Tally was turned down for assignments as political or economic officer by three U.S. ambassadors. Eventually one of them, Edward Korry, Ambassador to Ethiopia, let her become his executive assistant. But the job involved little more than that of a social secretary who also went on shopping trips for Kerry's wife...
...world tour, in which he isolated himself from ordinary citizens and from most of the sights and sounds of the countries he visited, the Vice President delivered himself of some gratuitous remarks about blacks. Having met with three African leaders -Ethiopia's Haile Selassie, the Congo's Joseph Mobutu and Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta-Agnew told U.S. newsmen traveling with him that those Africans were "dedicated, enlightened, dynamic and extremely apt for the task that faces them." Then he added: "The quality of this leadership is in distinct contrast with many of those in the United States...