Word: congos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...regions - separated tribally, politically and religiously. Five years of rule by the vast but backward Moslem North only made things worse, and by the time a military coup threw the Northerners out of power eight months ago, Nigeria had all but turned ungovernable. "This is more difficult than the Congo," admitted Major General Johnson Aguiyi Ironsi, who in herited the mess...
...Lynching is lynching, and I am against lynching. It makes no difference whether a white mob lynches a Negro in Mississippi or a black mob lynches a white man in the Congo, whether a Communist mob lynches an "exploiter" in China or a Nationalist mob lynches a "Peking dog" in Indonesia...
...breakfast consisting mainly of Eno's Fruit Salts, a sparkling laxative, then settles down for an hour to read the biographies of the world's political and military leaders ("to know how they acted in difficult times"). His own most difficult problem is reconstruction of the northeast Congo, which the two-year Simba rebellion left in ruins. An average of 400 refugees a day are still pouring into Kisangani (formerly Stanleyville), which is itself a city half dead: half its shops are closed, there is little left of its once-thriving industry, and most of its citizens...
This week copper company representatives from Chile, Peru, Zambia and the Congo are meeting in Lubumbashi, formerly Elisabethville, to consider the situation. But despite the danger to copper, prospects for an early return to the old pegged prices are slim...
With Kennedy's death, Johnson was thrust into a foreign policy maelstrom. In two years, he had to cope with riots in Panama, civil war in Cyprus, massacre in the Congo, killing in Kashmir, sag in the Alliance for Progress, Gaullism in NATO, chaos in the Dominican Republic, and above all, Viet Nam. Johnson said that he felt himself "in the position of a jack rabbit in a hailstorm, hunkered up and taking it." He also had to listen to a lot of contradic tory advice from his lieutenants. The President once petulantly complained that "the Air Force comes...