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...Thant, in effect, the U.N.-sanctioned project has been a flop. And for him it has been a rather messy flop, for in the past three weeks he and Von Horn have had an ugly exchange of recriminations. The prestigious but stormy Von Horn, first U.N. chief in the Congo and for five years head of the U.N.'s Palestine peace-keeping force, suddenly resigned in a cable to Thant, charging lack of sufficient logistic support, aircraft and even rations. Thant branded Von Horn's charges "irresponsible and reckless," announced last week that the mission would continue, thanks...
Until last month, S.A.A.'s Boeing 707 jets operated two efficient routes between Johannesburg and Europe-one along Africa's east fringe, via Nairobi, Kenya; the other almost due north via Brazzaville, in the once-French Congo. Trouble began when, implementing the Addis Ababa agreement, Egypt, Algeria, Ethiopia and Sudan barred South African aircraft from overflying their territories. S.A.A. rerouted all its flights over Libya. But then Libya also joined the air blockade. Fortnight ago S.A.A. inaugurated a carefully prepared, out-of-the-way alternate route around West Africa's bulge, via Brazzaville (which...
Once on a state visit to Paris, Abbé Fulbert Youlou, President of the Republic of the Congo, shook hands with Charles de Gaulle and boasted: "Like you, I am irreversible." Last week, on the third anniversary of his country's independence, Youlou was reversed right out of office by an explosion of his people's pent-up discontent...
...country, the ex-French colony called the "other Congo" to distinguish it from its anarchic ex-Belgian neighbor,* has long seemed quiet and peaceful. But when it came, Youlou's exit had all the revolutionary trimmings, including a storming of the local bastille and a mob outside the palace howling for bread...
...year ago, amid murder, rape, kidnaping and looting, Algeria was shaping up as another Congo. Warlords ruled supreme in the six wilayas (military zones), and a minor, three-day civil war cost 2,000 lives. The economy seemed near death and the flight of French settlers - out of 1,000,000 only about 100,000 remained - deprived the country of nearly all doctors, civil servants, teachers and technicians. Most observers expected either a harsh military dictatorship or total anarchy. Though Ben Bella is a dictator, he has so far managed to avoid both extremes and rules not so much...