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...several other occasions as well, Johnson's diplomatic report card also was mixed. His decision to go ahead with the Congo air-rescue operation was diluted by its tardiness and by the fact that the mission was halted prematurely. To his credit, he attempted to restore peace to Cyprus, even though the prospects of success were slight. The effort failed, but only after Under Secretary of State George Ball gave the island's Archbishop Makarios a dressing down worthy of Lyndon himself. "For God's sake, Your Beatitude," Ball scolded the archbishop, "this killing must stop...
...Chinese weapons continued to move in through Uganda and the Sudan, military experts in Leopoldville estimated that Simba firepower had already surpassed that of the Congolese and mercenary forces. Against that background, U.S., Belgian and Congolese diplomats last week began groping about for a "political solution" to the Congo's chaos...
...moderates among the rebels, but Lumum-bism and the whole rebel movement have never been stronger or more militant. Necessary though the Stanleyville intervention was, it did have the unfortunate effect of coalescing Arab and African radical support behind the rebellion. With the northern and eastern borders of the Congo wide open to infiltration, Tshombe, or any other non-Lumumbist leader who might follow him, faces a long, drawn-out guerrilla...
...most that the U.S.-Belgian proposals might achieve would be to make it easier for such moderate African na tions as Nigeria, Tunisia and Sierra Leone to lend moral support to Tshombe. But what the Congo really needs is increased military and administrative assistance, aimed at building an army that will fight without white leadership and a civil service that won't steal the country blind. Rather than trying to polish Tshombe's ineradicably tarnished image through hopeful half-measures, Brussels and Washington would do better sending him increased logistic and material support. After all, Mike Hoare...
...well." Nasser's salty slur -the Arabic equivalent of "jump in the lake" -was aimed at U.S. Ambassador Lucius D. Battle, who had been brazen enough to criti cize Nasser for his recent anti-American posture. Shortly after the U.S. Belgian rescue operation in the Congo, Egyptian mobs burned the $350.000 John F. Kennedy Library in Cairo: last week a private plane carrying two U.S. oil-company employees was shot down near Alexandria by Egyptian MIGs. More ominous from Washington's viewpoint was Nasser's aid to the Communist-backed Congo rebels...