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...WILLIAM F. PRUITT American Presbyterian Congo Mission Lulabourg, Republic of Congo...
Beyond that. Congress agreed to help bail the United Nations out of the indebtedness incurred in its special operations in the Congo and Middle East by buying up to $100 million in bonds, but not beyond the total purchased by all other U.N. member nations. It passed a threeyear, $435 million Administration program to retrain unemployed workers. After an embarrassing filibuster by Democratic Senate liberals, the Administration's plan to set up a private corporation to operate a communications satellite system was approved. After a mild Southern filibuster, Congress approved a constitutional amendment to outlaw poll taxes in federal...
...defended the organization's actions in the Congo as an effort "to give meaning to independence and to restore law and order...
...Under Secretary, who was himself responsible for organizing the operation in the Congo, called the Congo a country absolutely unprepared for in- "a bitter experience" in what can befall dependence. At the time the Republic gained nationhood, there were but 17 university graduates in the entire country...
...confused with the Congo (Leopoldville), the former Belgian colony that usually causes all the trouble...