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...sovereign state and that would order Israel to retreat to its pre-1967 boundaries. On previous occasions, emergency sessions had been called to deal with fast-breaking crises, such as the North Korean invasion of South Korea in 1950 and the outbreak of chaos in the former Belgian Congo a decade later. This time the resolution's sponsors seized on the device of an emergency session, because, under this procedure, it is possible for the U.N. to assemble a military force. Such a force could be used, the sponsors felt, to press the Israelis to withdraw from the occupied...
...planet is about the size of earth. But there are a few differences: its only river is longer than the Nile, the Congo, the Niger, the Amazon, the Orinoco and the Mississippi-combined. And its inhabitants are not exactly the folks next door. For inexplicably resurrected on both banks of the mysterious river is every soul who ever lived, from hairy cave dwellers to modern Homo sapiens, from the totally unknown to such famous figures as Joan of Arc, Karl Marx and Hermann Göring...
Last week as the Pope moved from Zaire to Congo, Kenya, Ghana, Upper Volta and the Ivory Coast, torrents of people poured into city plazas and thoroughfares to catch a glimpse of the white-robed Holy Father. In Kinshasa the rush to see John Paul produced tragedy. Part of the turnout, which eventually numbered 1 million, had waited for hours to get into the cordoned area at the Palace of the People. As the gates opened at 5:30 a.m., nine people were trampled to death in the stampede, dozens were hospitalized, and an estimated 500 had minor injuries...
...level, the tour was a cavalcade of Africanization. The crowds in Brazzaville, Congo, shook gourd rattles and castanets, waved palm branches, bouquets, homemade crucifixes. In a church near Kinshasa, old women trilled highpitched lullaloos, and the officiating Belgian priest wore a monkey-skin headdress with the tail running down his back. Among the gifts presented to John Paul in Nairobi: primitive paintings, an animal-skin cape, an antelope horn, daggers, a spear and shield, and a tribal headdress that he gamely donned...
...attitude toward religion is most perplexing in the People's Republic of the Congo. In 1977, Emile Biayenda became the second Cardinal in the century to be assassinated. But last month the nominally Marxist government of President Denis Sassou Nguesso established diplomatic relations with the Vatican and pleaded urgently to be included in the papal visit. The Congo needs to court Catholicism to shore up its popular support and counteract the influence of revolutionary religious sects that seek to overthrow the government. John Paul used his visit to remind Congolese officials that religious freedom is "at the center...