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Halberstam, who began covering combat in the Congo in the early 1960s before requesting a transfer to Saigon, became one of America’s prominent voices on the topic of Vietnam through his books “The Making of the Quagmire” and “The Best and the Brightest,” which both described the American involvement in Vietnam and criticized American policy...
...seized the opportunity to report on conflict in the Congo (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo), which was granted independence from Belgium in 1960 and quickly devolved into civil war. At the time, Halberstam says that the Times didn’t have many reporters who were willing to take that risk, but as a “young, single, and extremely ambitious” reporter, he was more than willing...
...Halberstam arrived in the Congo. It was one of the first trips overseas he had ever taken, and it provided a new depth of learning experience...
...Africa's bloodiest wars, campaigners are turning up the heat on gold miners. Last week, New York City-based Human Rights Watch released a report alleging that the lure of gold fueled massive atrocities over the past few years in the northeastern Ituri region of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The 159-page report, entitled The Curse of Gold, names Swiss gold refining company Metalor Technologies Group as one of those that has purchased Congo's conflict gold. It also alleges that the world's second biggest gold mining company, AngloGold Ashanti, which has a 10,000-sq-km concession...
...motto "Shame is for sissies," specialized in improving the public image of despots; of an apparent suicide; in Rome. Always flamboyant?he added the "Von" to his name and regularly appeared at formal events in a black cape?his clients included Romania's Nicolae Ceausescu, Laurent Kabila of Congo and Saddam Hussein...