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Nobody else was particularly eager to get deeply involved in the Congo either. Yet these words from Richard Russell marked a strange new mood about foreign policy-far from general, but significant. Only a short time ago the most enlightened men in both parties made it a cardinal principle that the U.S. must assume, if not downright seek out, global responsibility for freedom. Now many of those same men are beginning to say that the U.S. is badly overextended, that it is not strong enough to assume responsibility all over the globe, and that it is time to pull back...
...learned to live with many forms of neutralism and Communism, as far as Viet Nam is concerned, "neutralization" merely misrepresents the issue. For the foreseeable future, it would amount to Communist takeover. Tempting though it would be to avoid jungle neighborhoods like Southeast Asia and the Congo and confine U.S. efforts to the more manageable and powerful parts of the world, writing off any area would simply mean inviting in the Communists-who can always extend their influence more cheaply than the U.S. through local Communist parties...
...painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference to decide how our national assets should be divided." Continued Zik: "Should the politicians fail to heed this warning, then I venture the prediction that the experience of the Congo will be child's play if it ever comes our turn to play such a tragic role...
...more than a month, the main target of the Congo's two mercenary rescue columns had been the town of Wamba, where rebel Simbas were known to be holding some 250 white hostages. Last week the mercenaries finally made it to Wamba, and what they found confirmed their worst fears. Though 121 whites were still alive, another 28 had been brutally massacred. Most of the dead were Belgians - including Monsignor Joseph-Pierre Albert Wittebols, Bishop of Wamba. Most of the survivors were Greeks - who had paid for their lives with cash and cooperation...
Last week, in a blistering letter to the U.N. Security Council, Tshombe charged that in addition to arms, Egypt and Algeria were also sending officers to operate with the rebels "along the entire length of the Congo's northeastern frontier." Though Tshombe could produce no concrete evidence that the outsiders had actually crossed into the Congo to lead Simba troops, intelligence sources several weeks ago identified an Algerian officer in the Burundi capital of Bujumbura, where Congolese rebels long maintained their eastern headquarters. Some 40 "Arabs," who may be Algerian officers, are reported to be standing by at Juba...