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Barefoot Police. Things are almost as chaotic in the Congo's other 17 provinces, where local bush Caesars go their own anarchic ways unimpeded by central authority. In coffee-rich North Kivu, Provincial President Benezeth Moley maintains headquarters in one room of a general store, runs things with a 300-man police force recruited from local tribesmen...
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...shot, and already the occurrence of polio had dropped 80%. By the same time, Merck, Sharp, and Dohme Research Laboratories had shipped Sabin's live virus doses to Mexico, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Malaya, Singapore, and the U.S.S.R. Over ten million people were vaccinated in these countries, while in the Belgian Congo 2.2 million took another live virus vaccine, developed by Dr. Herald R. Cox of the Lederle Labs. Still a third live-type preparation was being developed by Dr. Koprowski of the Wistar Institute...
Admittedly, the improvement of Cuban agriculture is not currently a part of the United States' Latin American policy. Neither, however, did the U.N. operation in the Congo proceed in accordance with the national interest of Belgium or the Soviet Union. Paul Hoffman, Managing Director of the Fund, has pledged that no U.S. funds will be used for the Cuban project. Seeking such assurances, however, only gives added strength to charges made abroad that the United States regards the International organization merely as a means for forcing other countries to help execute American foreign policy. It can of course be argued...