Word: congos
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...none, of this may be true?or, most likely, part of it. But the fact is that mass murder is by no means an exclusive American institution; it has been perpetrated in scores of countries down the ages, from Caligula's Rome to the Congo...
...Stanleyville. Then, as Belgian paratroopers raced to the rescue, he and 17 other prisoners were gunned down. Carlson and his missionary-nurse wife had a strong belief in the will of God, and to honor her husband's unshakable faith, Lois Carlson, 38, has now returned to the Congo. She will pick a spot for a medical foundation to be built with funds raised by U.S. donations-in memory of Dr. Paul...
...Duke of Hamilton, a World War II R.A.F. group captain credited with discovering the German V-2 base at Peenemünde who later moved to the U.S. to run an aircraft supply business, then disappeared in Africa in July 1964, while delivering a twin-engined Beechcraft to the Congo; when a native came across the wreckage 9,000 ft. up Cameroon Mountain, just south of Nigeria, and the British Foreign Office reported identifying the body...
...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...
...months, the Katangese and the A.N.C. troops grew to hate each other largely because the Mobutu men lorded it over the Kats and took all the cold beer and prettiest girls. Two months ago, the gendarmes went "on strike," nabbed A.N.C. Colonel Joseph Damien Tshatshi (known in the Congo as "Tshatshi the Terrible"), sent him back to headquarters in his underwear. Angry and alarmed, A.N.C. Commander Louis Bobozo decided that the time had come to disarm the Kats. When he tried to implement his decision two weeks ago, all hell broke loose in Stanleyville (now called Kisangani...