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...amazingly paradoxical situation; the only city is the U.S. with a Negro majority is governed by Southern whites. "It's as if the U.N. had sent the South Africans to run the Congo," District officials say when they are sure no one is listening. It is these men--John McMillan of South Carolina (the chairman), Howard Smith of Virginia (the veterau of the Rules Committee), John Dowdy of Texas, George Huddleston of Alabama, Basil Whitener of North Carolina, John Bell Williams of Mississippi, and so on through a lengthy roster of Southerners, who year after year prevent the passage...
Squandermania. It was the latest in a series of coups that have shaken Africa's new nations, including Dahomey's neighbor, Togo, where President Sylvanus Olympic was assassinated last January, and the former French Congo, whose President Fulbert Youlou was deposed in August (the ex-Belgian Congo also witnessed a near-coup three weeks ago). Plots have been uncovered in Senegal, Chad and the Ivory Coast...
...monopoly was so old-72-that many Italians scoffingly dubbed him the "interim pope." But in one year on the job as chief of Ente Nazionale Idrocarburi (E.N.I.), Marcello Boldrini, a former professor of statistics, has proved as aggressively expansive as Mattei. Traveling from the Volga to the Congo, Boldrini has won a barrel of new business for E.N.I. and spearheaded Italian commercial penetration abroad...
...tremors became serious last August, when mobs of unemployed overthrew President Fulbert Youlou in the ex-French Congo across the Congo River in Brazzaville. The upheaval fired the imaginations of labor leaders in Leopoldville, whose slums teem with thousands of jobless. They were joined by followers of the late Patrice Lumumba and his leftist successor, Antoine Gizenga. Although he is imprisoned on an island in the river, his African Solidarity Party remains well organized...
Immediately the Congo's unionists threatened a general strike. Lumumbists formed a "Committee of Liberation," endorsed labor's demands. Prompted by his backers, Kasavubu last week decreed a six-month state of emergency in Leopoldville, and a three-man junta in effect took over. All are Binza...