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...Full Responsibility." In the Congo, where leftist-led rebels butchered at least 80 American and European men, women and children held hostage behind their lines, the U.S. provided a dozen C-130 Hercules transports to carry Belgian paratroopers to the rescue (see cover story in THE WORLD). President Johnson, who sat up until 4 a.m. at the LBJ Ranch to hear how the operation went, said he took "full responsibility" for U.S. involvement. There was little doubt that he would soon have to take responsibility for other decisions concerning the Congo...
That got Moscow back into the act, after a long Russian silence on the Congo, with a demand that "all foreign interference be ended at once." As for Gbenye, spouting fury he ordered the evacuation of all hostages from Stanleyville. Each hostage, he announced, had been turned over to three trusted rebels-and "at the slightest attack" on the city, all 860 would...
From Mr. O'Brien book, I couclude that everyone who trusted anyone else in the Congo was fool. Mr. Tshombe was completely justified in believing that Hammarskjold's word, like his own, was worthless. David D. Friedman...
...Even though, by latest count, 15 other African countries have TV. Among them: the ex-French Congo, Gabon, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Uganda...
Kenya's Prime Minister Jomo Kenyatta, chairman of an ad hoc Congo Reconciliation Commission set up by the Organization of African Unity, appealed to "all authorities in the Congo to do nothing that would be inhuman toward civilians in their custody...