Word: congos
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...Your cover story about Dr. Carlson and the Congo [Dec. 4] was all the more moving because of its restraint. Carlson, picked out and identified but carefully not glorified, shines like a good deed in a very naughty world -to whose conscience you spoke very clearly...
...Artist Vickrey has captured a look of unbelieving disappointment in the face of the late Dr. Paul Carlson. This is an emotion that clearly expresses the futility of many efforts in the Congo, but was nevertheless an emotion not shared by that indefatigable missionary...
...Although not an Afro-American, but nevertheless an American Negro, 1 was outraged by your reporting of the Congo massacre, with your sophomoric generalizations on the savagery of the blacks on the African continent. If Americans were able to remember their own history, they would find these Simbas no more savage than those responsible for Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Perhaps one day when the white people of the West, and particularly the whites of America, can become true humanitarians, then the African states can bemoan the bestiality at Stanleyville...
...week demo was the sport in Indonesia, where for the second time in as many weeks a fun-loving mob-egged on by the nation's powerful Communist Party-ravaged a United States Information Service library, ostensibly in protest against the joint U.S.-Belgian rescue mission in the Congo. In Surabaya more than 1,000 jolly Javanese burst into the U.S. Cultural Center, tore down the American flag, smashed furniture, ripped up many of the library's expensive technical and scientific books, and burned it all in a roaring, heartwarming bonfire. Three days earlier, another carefully organized...
...crowd of delegates and officials spilled over into the press section and public galleries; ambassadors stood three-deep around the horseshoe table. Never had the chamber been so packed, and seldom had its mood been so ugly. The U.N. Security Council was debating the Congo...