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...another hill members of the "Ad Hoc Committee for a Revolutionary Contingent," a radical group, built a tower of black poles and flew Viet Congo flags along with one American Revolutionary War flag. Some of the revolutionary contingent changed into black pajamas and coolie hats to emphasize their solidarity with the fighters of the National Liberation Front...
...against the American grain, but it isn't very hard to appraise manpower needs like these: at Independence, the Congo had only 16 university graduates; Malawi (population three and a half million) had two doctors and one engineer. Most African nations have made great strides in higher education, since then, and while this is one of the reasons ASPAU is shrinking its program this year, the needs of the Great Interim still remain pressing...
...will go hungry to gain our economic independence," said the Congo's President Joseph Mobutu when he nationalized Union Minière du Haut Katanga on Jan. 1. General Mobutu's economically shortsighted advisers clapped their approval, scoffed at the prospect of a mass exodus of Belgian technicians. "Pay them," one aide predicted, "and they will do anything." It did not turn out that way. Union Minière's management immediately chose to pull out. Shipments and, consequently, sales came to a standstill. Only five of 2,000 engineers and technicians opted to stay on under...
Still to be settled: compensation of Union Minière for $800 million in seized assets, and claims by the Congo on $100 to $150 million worth of copper in shipment at the time the mines were nationalized...
...America. Dick Helms has been, in Washington parlance, a "spook" for nearly 25 years. He is a veteran of some of the agency's most labyrinthine operations-from masterminding double agents working at the very heart of Kremlin intelligence to supervising covert U.S. operations that kept the Congo out of Communist control...