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...couple of Soviet diplomats got the kind of treatment in the Congo last week that many other countries have often wished but not dared to mete out to Red envoys...
Almost from the day of the Congo's independence in 1960, the Russians and their satellites worked doggedly to destroy what little stability the country had in hopes of getting a Communist faction in control. Expelled en masse after the demise of erratic Patrice Lu mumba, the Reds began filtering back into Leopoldville last year, notably to the towering eight-story apartment building that is both embassy and residence for Soviet Ambassador Sergei Nemchina and his 100-man staff of operatives. Two of Nemchina's most important aides, his slim, fair embassy counselor Boris Voronin and stocky, bushy...
...What worried the gov ernment most was the close contact of the two Russians with a plotting exile group led by Lumumba's former Party Chief Christophe Gbenye, who made his headquarters across the Congo River in the ex-French Congo capital of Brazzaville...
Fifteen speeches are included in the section of the book entitled "The Crisis." They range in subject from the Congo to disarmament, to Red Chins, to Cubs. While without exception they ring with Stevenson's impeccable rhetoric, almost every speech is an infraction of the Ambassador's public philosophy. In some cases they go so far as to attack his own beliefs as expressed as a private citizen. For example, in opposing Red China's entry into the world body, he condemns their "aggressive violence" at length, and argues against those who maintain that membership in the U.N. would encourage...
...recent spectacular coup in the Congo, Boldrini shut out four bitter competitors-Texaco, Mobil, Shell and Belgium's Petrofina. E.N.I. landed a $13 million contract to build the only refinery in the Congo, and the four rivals will have to buy from it to supply their gas stations. Their severe protests have so irritated the Congo government that Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula last week threatened to expel two complaining Shell and Petrofina executives...