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...Moondance is a more mature album. Though there are no virtuoso instrumentals, the music is much stronger. Morrison has added another sax, piano, organ and congo drum-practically a small orchestra. But the music itself is not the vital part of Moondance. Its function is to provide a background for Morrison, as The Band did for Dylan. And this is superbly done; the instrumentalists almost, but never quite drop out of sight...
Earlier in the week, Rogers' talks with Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda, Republic of the Congo President Joseph Mobutu and Cameroun President...
Four Principles. Since the end of the Congo rebellion in the mid-1960s, the U.S. has been content to maintain a profile so low as to be nearly invisible. As a result, Black African feelings about the U.S. are lukewarm at best. In North Africa, however, the position is slightly different. In both Morocco and Tunisia, first and second among Africa's nations in total U.S. aid, Rogers found a definite coolness. That was largely because of the Arabs' distaste for what they see as Washington's pro-Israel policy. In Morocco, Rogers made a few polite...
...miles from the capital. "Let's not call it a day off," he told his staff. "Let's call it a fact-finding expedition." Facts, after all, are what he is looking for -and over the next stops on his ten-country, two-week trip-Zambia, the Congo, Cameroun, Nigeria, Ghana and Liberia-Rogers will be looking hard for areas in which U.S. aid can be more effectively used...
History Distorted. O'Brien, of course, is much too sly to pretend that he is recording straight history, even though he was a U.N. official in Katanga province in 1961 during its secessionist struggle with the Republic of the Congo. In one of the most disingenuous prefaces ever tacked onto a play, O'Brien announces: "My Hammarskjold and my Lumumba are not to be thought of as the 'real' characters of that name, but as personages shaped by the imitation of a real action associated with their names." What O'Brien is proclaiming here...