Word: congos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congolese army sergeant is up tight. "To you, this is just a piece of real estate called the Congo," he snarls at his boss, a commander of mercenaries. "But to me it's our Bunker Hill...
...universities, Senegal's University of Dakar, and the Ivory Coast's University of Abidjan, together enrolling fewer than 3,000 students. Though Senegal's economy is almost completely grounded on farming, there is no school of agriculture at the brightly flowered, Dakar campus. In the Congo (Léopoldville), the University of Lovanium proudly displays one of Africa's few nuclear reactors. As a result, it has dozens of black students solving mysteries of nuclear physics, only a handful learning engineering and medicine. Lovanium's classics-oriented curriculum is based on that of its parent...
Bunker Hill? He is talking about the Simba rebellion of 1964, which was far bloodier and more basic than any fight in the vicinity of Boston. This film spills plenty of blood, but it turns the Congo's victims into plastic participants in a war that is not quite real. The commander (Rod Taylor) and the sergeant (Jim Brown) are at the head of a small band of mercenaries and Congolese troops. Their assignment is to rescue an outpost of helpless whites. Even before the battle begins, however, Brown is forced to restrain Taylor from murdering a murder-bent...
...appropriately named National Day. Cultural Revolutionary China had managed to pick quarrels with no fewer than 32 countries. Among them were Indonesia, Ghana and Tunisia, which broke off diplomatic relations with Peking. In fact, only five foreign governments sent their traditional delegations to National Day: Albania, the Brazzaville Congo, Pakistan, Tanzania and North Viet Nam. Of the 45 nations around the world with which China still maintains diplomatic ties, only one -Egypt-is graced by the presence of a Chinese ambassador at his post...
Belgium, when art nouveau was in flower, boasted one of its veritable orchids, Architect Victor Horta. Although four of Horta's buildings have been redesigned, destroyed by fire or demolished, the 66-room manse that he did for Baron van Eetvelde, Belgium's first Governor of the Congo, is preserved much as Horta left it. Moreover, in the annex of the hotel lives Architect Jean Delhaye, a kind of one-man Belgian fin de siècle society who is directing the reconstruction of the home Horta built for himself in Brussels, so that it can open next...