Word: congos
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...Congo. What about the rest of the world? There are no other Viet Nams, but there are plenty of other areas of concern...
...Congo is temporarily quiescent after its recent outburst of savagery, but the rebels are still strong, and the U.S. has only limited hopes of stopping the flow of arms to them from Communist and African nationalist countries...
...really start sweating." As of last week there was no firm evidence that foreign officers or troops were fighting with the Simbas. Even Tshombe's complaint to the U.N. Security Council that "rebel hordes, led by foreign officers, particularly Algerians and Egyptians, are operating all along the Congo's northeastern frontier" was carefully worded to avoid specifying which side of the frontier he meant...
There is a fair chance that neither the Algerians nor the Egyptians will ever dare to send their own troops to the Congo. For one thing, much of black Africa harbors an ancient hostility toward the Arabs that dates back to the precolonial days of the slave traders. No one is more ready to exploit the Arab-Negro conflict than Moise Tshombe, who can always draw a cheer by calling the Arabs "black Africa's worst enemies...
...Kenya was granted its $4.5 million credit in December, its ambassador had to delay signing the agreement in IDA's Washington head quarters for nearly three weeks. Reason: he was busy at the United Nations, trying to organize a condemnation of the U.S. for its role in the Congo rescue operation...