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Morton said that the administration must apply strong pressure soon for all nations to pay their full share to the U.N. Congo and Middle East operations. Unless it does, he warned, Congress will become increasingly reluctant to vote funds for the United Nations...
Customs agents and Special Branch detectives charged with safeguarding the borders of the sprawling Rhodesian Federation have been run ragged lately. In the north, there is a steady traffic of white mercenaries and African soldiers from the routed Katangese army, who slip across the Congo line to peddle their weapons to eager white and black Rhodesians who may one day use them on each other. In the east, smugglers from the Portuguese colony of Mozambique make their way through the wild, mountainous bush to bring in dagga weed (marijuana) and take out gold stolen by workmen in Rhodesian mines. Last...
Even Tshombe's erstwhile African allies were re-examining their relations with Leopoldville. First to bury the hatchet was President Fulbert Youlou of the Congo Republic, formerly the French Congo, whose capital city of Brazzaville lies across the river from Leopoldville. Youlou, a nonpracticing Roman Catholic priest who stubbornly continues to wear his cassock, supported Tshombe's secession in 1960. But with Tshombe on the way out, Youlou suddenly sailed across the Stanley Pool to make friends with the Leopoldville crowd. Then, looking like a shorter, soutaned version of Sonny Listen, he took off on a five...
...CRIMSON has a monopoly on covering the Congo. David L. Halberstam, managing editor in 1955, reported on the Congo crisis for the New York Times and won the Times front-page award in 1961. Halberstam has since moved on to Vietnam, and his place in the Congo has been taken by J. Anthony Lukas, associate managing editor of the CRIMSON...
...National Bank of Katanga in Elisabethville were some legitimate spoils -or so it seemed. There should have been $16.2 million in Congolese francs originally deposited in the bank to support the currency of Moise Tshombe's Katanga-and U.N. officials hoped to turn it over to the Congo government for reconstruction. But when they got there, Tshombe's cupboard was bare...