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...AFRICA. On Zanzibar, a ragtag horde of nationalist and pro-Communist Africans overthrew the government, slaughtered hundreds of Arabs. In East Africa, soldiers of the Tanganyikan, Ugandan and Kenyan armies mutinied. In the Congo, a guerrilla band led by proCommunists seized part of Kwilu province. Across the volatile continent, the U.S. was watching uneasily for new outbursts...
...contribution to NATO is token at best, and it is even more minuscule in SEATO-at the last military maneuvers in Southeast Asia, France was represented by a single observer. France refuses to take a seat in the Geneva disarmament talks and will not share the U.N.'s Congo costs. De Gaulle has been contemptuous of the U.N. since its birth, both because it has the common failing of all assemblies, which "beneath their fine speeches are ruled by the fear of action," and because its members are nations, "that is, the least impartial and the most partisan bodies...
...Congo's most serious flare-up since Katanga's stubborn secession finally was crushed a year ago, this latest bloodbath suddenly erupted in early January in Kwilu province, 250 miles east of Leopoldville. Fortnight ago, roving gangs of youths hacked to death three Belgian Roman Catholic priests-one of them bedridden. Directed by Peking-trained Pierre Mulele, onetime Education Minister under the late, left-leaning Patrice Lumumba, the terrorists often donned war paint, loincloths and crude red helmets, cried "Moscow!" and "Russia!" as they burned and looted. Scores of black local officials have been methodically butchered. Four village...
...government initially sent in a single small infantry unit, 40 men of which were besieged by guerrillas last week in the village of Idiofa. The soldiers' only help was a light plane that flew over, lobbing grenades at the rebels. With Congo Army Commander Joseph Mobutu away on vacation, the government seemed paralyzed. Finally, at week's end, a battalion of Congolese commandos was airlifted to the provincial capital of Kikwit...
...grown-up John Thomas never cries. He works for an orthopedic supply house, and he is the Boston representative for something called Niagara Cyclo-Massage machines. He collects jazz records, lives in a two-room basement apartment jammed with fur pelts, tribal masks and African sculpture ("the Congo Hilton," he calls it). "Now I'm going to see what life is really all about," he says. But first there is that Olympic gold medal he intends to win next fall in Tokyo. "It's between me and that bar," says Thomas...