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...Russian failure to back rhetoric with substantive help at crucial points has also been well illustrated in the Congo quagmire, which since July 1960 has threatened to draw in the U.S.S.R. and the U.S. as direct adversaries. Each time considerable Russian involvement was needed to give Soviet clients a chance at success, the Communists backed down. This has been a pattern from the fall...
...copper-consuming nations had every reason to worry. The idea, as conceived last fall by Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda and Chilean President Eduardo Frei, was to set up a price-and-quota-fixing copper cartel to control the world market. After all, their countries plus Peru and the Congo produce 70% of the earth's copper sold for export. * With economies largely based on copper, all four nations have suffered as the price of the red metal outside the U.S. tumbled from nearly $1 a pound in early 1966 to around 45? recently...
Mannock has flown more than a hundred helicopter missions in Viet Nam, was inside Plei Me when it was attacked by the North Vietnamese, and had several close scrapes 2½ years ago during the Congo fighting. But this, he concluded, topped all his previous experiences: "Sergeant Brown's courage and professional skill kept us alive and me sane that night. After the rescue helicopter had finally lifted us to safety next morning, I found myself singing above the engine's roar like one of the Animals, 'We gotta get out of this place...
...strong journalistic and humanitarian bent, a onetime child prodigy who performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at 14, in later years made concert tours to many of the world's troubled areas, recounting her impressions in newspaper articles and several outspoken books (Who Killed the Congo), also helped found the Amerasian Foundation to aid the mothers of illegitimate children fathered by U.S. soldiers in Viet Nam; in the crash of a U.S. Army helicopter; near Danang, South Viet Nam, where she was doubling as entertainer and correspondent for the Manchester, N.H., Union Leader...
Trace of a Burr. A sprightly Scot who speaks with a trace of a burr, McCracken estimates that he has delivered more than 5,000 sermons since deciding to become a minister, at the age of 17, upon hearing a lecture by a visiting Congo missionary. McCracken, who held pastorates in Edinburgh and Glasgow and taught at Canada's McMaster University before coming to Riverside, firmly believes that "a theology that isn't preached has something lacking." He argues that the Biblical message has not lost its relevance and provides an antidote to what he calls...