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...member more than two years in arrears with its financial contributions loses its vote in the General Assembly. But Russia and France, along with a number of smaller nations, have consistently refused to pay their share of the Assembly's assessments for peace-keeping operations-primarily in the Congo and the Middle East-that run counter to their own policies. The U.S. threatened to invoke Article 19 to deprive the delinquents of their vote, but the majority feared that in such a showdown, Russia would walk out and wreck the organization; thus the small nations insisted on preventing...
...Organization of African Unity, the league they had hoped to dominate, rejected the radicals' demands for a hearing for the Congolese rebels, and last month a bloc of 13 former French colonies met in the Mauritanian capital of Nouakchott to give their official support to the legitimate Congo government of Moise Tshombe...
Conference in Luluabourg. Like a cowboy leading a stampede, Tshombe himself is running hardest and fastest. Hardly had he returned from Brussels last month, triumphantly displaying the former colonial government's long-promised portfolio of shares in the Congo's Belgian-owned industries, than he was racing to consolidate his success politically. Crowing that the "return of the portfolio" was the equivalent of political and economic independence -and the symbol of national dignity-Tshombe flew off for a conference with other political leaders in Luluabourg. The object was to form an electoral alliance that would carry him through...
Itinerant Polling. Still, Tshombe is taking no chances. The voting begins in heavily pro-Tshombe Elisabethville, then moves to Leopoldville, where both Kasavubu and Tshombe are popular, only reaches the rebel-infested northeastern Congo in the middle of April. By then, Tshombe hopes he will have piled up so many votes elsewhere that the northeastern tribes will go along...
Elections are not easy in the Congo. To reach the 80% of the population, itinerant polling officers will have to haul the ballot boxes from hamlet to hamlet by pirogue and dugout canoe, or by land along elephant tracks, winding jungle paths and narrow bush trails. Moreover, the rebels have killed thousands of civil servants, producing a desperate shortage of trained administrators who could serve as polling officers...