Word: congos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...crisscrossed the erstwhile White Man's Grave, dropping in on the Ivory Coast, Liberia, Ghana, the Congo, Zambia and Ethiopa-with Somalia, Kenya and Tunisia also on the itinerary-not even the fabled spirit of WAWA could put Humphrey down. WAWA, short for West Africa Wins Again, is invoked by exasperated voyagers as the malefic author of all sub-Saharan hang-ups, and it struck frequently. Hubert smilingly brushed it aside...
...line - and back into the land of the Woman's Picture, where men must wander and ladies must weep, alone. The movie's hero is a bored, lecherous French television reporter (Yves Montand) who perpetually roams from his aging wife (Annie Girardot) on journeys to the Congo or the Orient, searching for stories. Though he apparently has his pick of every female in Paris, Montand eventually limits his love life to two: Girardot and a beautiful but blank American model (Candice Bergen). Considering the women's performances, the choice is roughly comparable to claret v. Coca-Cola...
...Congo's matted jungle trees
Last week, in an anniversary speech, Mobutu called the Congo "the rising star of Africa." With the mercenaries gone-they signed a pledge never again to fight in Africa-and the country on a more sensible course at least temporarily, the Congo finally has a chance. It is richer in natural resources-copper, tin, cobalt, industrial diamonds-than almost any other African nation. With the opportunity to exploit them in peace, it could become a model of prosperity rather than of chaos...
...Cuba, Mongolia and several Arab nations. Their activities usually parallel those of the U.S. Peace Corps, and the two groups, in fact, often work in the same towns. The Communists say that their new volunteers will be sent to teach in the Sudan, set up a clinic in the Congo, and build a school and irrigation dams in India, a youth center in Somalia, a sanitarium in Mongolia and a hospital on Cyprus. Averaging between 23 and 33 years old-about seven years older than the U.S. volunteers-the Communist corpsman signs up for a minimum of three months, takes...