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...represented at the congress strongly opposed Tshombe's attendance. Three leaders, Nkrumah of Ghana, Ben Bella of Algeria and Hassan II of Morocco, had refused in July to sit with Tshombe at a meeting of the Organization of African Unity. On October 4, Nasser asked Kasavubu, President of the Congo, to come himself and leave Tshombe home. At the congress' opening session, Nasser made a thinly veiled reference to Tshombe's policies in the Congo when he said, "a trade in mercenaries is being practiced without honor and without shame" for the sake of neocolonialism...
Nasser referred to the white South African and Rhodesian mercenaries whom Tshombe has hired to lead his government's troops against the rebels who have taken control of much of the northern and northeastern Congo. Rhodesia and South Africa both maintain an internal policy of white supremacy. Both nations enjoy the frank hostility of most African countries, and Tshombe's hiring soldiers from them has not enhanced his popularity with his African neighbors...
...setting for editorial whimsy? By last week, with publication of the second of two editorial samplers, the Trib's Marsh had made his point: ∙The Louisville Courier-Journal noted that a local Republican office-seeker was blaming Lyndon Johnson for everything- from the mess in the Congo to De Gaulle's recognition of Red China: "Our candidate has not yet mentioned that it was during the Kennedy-Johnson years that the blue whale became commercially extinct." ∙The Wichita, Kans., Eagle affected dismay after Johnson kissed a baby: "Is it proper for the President to expose himself...
...Johnson's newly won prestige will be damaged if they do and the strike is long. Deferred Decisions. With the campaign over, Johnson must also make some long-deferred decisions. "More of the same" may not keep Viet Nam afloat much longer. Laos and the Congo remain dangerously explosive. Domestically, the President must cope with impatient Negro leaders, who agreed to call off civil rights demonstrations during the campaign, but will be on the march again if their demands are not met. Abroad, the President faces a panoply of problems. De Gaulle's hints at a further French...
Only the dances, enhanced by some vibrantly lovely chorus girls, take the show out of its doldrums. The opening number in a training gym thrums to a Congo-like beat as Jaime Rogers paces the dancers with kinetic bodily grace, and his closing Big Fight ballet with Davis sizzles with supple ferocity. Sammy Davis, a remarkably versatile entertainer, is hobbled by a show that would rather preach than please...