Word: congos
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...hours later, when President Joseph Kasavubu was due to cast his ballot, observers from eleven African nations were on hand to applaud, television crews had set up their cameras, and journalists from all over the world were scurrying from precinct to precinct to record the phenomenon of an orderly Congo. The whole thing seemed almost too good to be true...
Such passions are not unknown elsewhere, from Cyprus to the Arab-Israeli frontier to the Congo. But in intensity and in the numbers of people they embroil, Asia's hostilities are the world's most serious and in many ways most troubling to the U.S., which now must consider Asia its foremost foreign-policy problem. These quarrels sadly refute the Gandhian view that Asian spiritualism is superior to the rationalism of the West. Gandhi liked to call for spiritual tranquillity. "Virtue," he preached, "lies in being absorbed in one's prayers in the presence...
...CONGO. When the Belgian colony precipitately won independence in 1960, the new nation collapsed in mutiny and civil war. The U.N. decided to intervene, and initially there was no Big Power opposition. Some 20,000 U.N. troops from 21 countries fought to subdue Moise Tshombe's secession in Katanga and, indirectly, to prevent a Communist takeover in the rest of the Congo. Many still feel that U.N. troops should never have performed a fighting role and that it was wrong to put down Tshombe, who has since emerged as the only figure capable of giving the country even...
Hoare sent out an appeal for more mercenaries, and by last week he had recruited and trained 270 new whites from South Africa, Rhodesia and Britain, who got six weeks of drill at the Congo's Kamina airbase, then moved north with Hoare to perform their first big mission-isolation of the rebels from their sanctuaries in Sudan and Uganda...
...sealing the borders, Hoare planned to end the flood of Communist-bloc arms pouring into the Congo. Going the other way were picked bands of Simbas wearing their monkey-skin headdresses. Three weeks later they would return, clad in a motley array of khaki uniforms and armed with the weapons they had been taught to use in a crash program officered by Algerian "volunteers...