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...satisfied with that narrow triumph, Soccer Fan M'Ba ordered deportation of all resident Congolese, who have never been very popular in Gabon, even among nonsports lovers. About 2,000 Congolese were shunted into hastily assembled concentration camps, then shipped down the Africa coast to a Congo port. The Congo in turn retaliated against Gabonese citizens living in Brazzaville. Mobs ripped into the Gabonese neighborhood of Poto-Poto, devastating shops and homes and injuring dozens of Gabonese. Only the intercession of Congo President Fulbert Youlou prevented a massacre. "Try to control yourselves," soothed Youlou, "and we will emerge greater...
Africans treat soccer as a form of refereed tribal warfare. Nigeria once upbraided a Ghanaian team for hexing the Nigerian goalie with black magic. In 1959 a game in the Belgian Congo between the Luluas and the Balubas touched off a three-day war in which 20 people were killed. Fortnight ago, the former French colony of Gabon sent a team to Brazzaville in the neighboring ex-French Congo* for a game of soccer. The toll so far: nine dead, 70 injured, and several thousand citizens transformed into refugees...
...game in Brazzaville was an important elimination match in the bitterly contested Coupe des Tropiques. Congo won it, 3-1, but the Congolese spectators decided that the margin was too small and that the referee, supposedly a neutral from the Central African Republic, favored the Gabonese. So the crowd roughed up the visiting team...
Question Mark. One of the hottest battles will be over money. The U.S. is preparing a major campaign to whittle down the U.N.'s huge $138 million deficit by collecting back dues from delinquent members, including cash for the expensive Congo and Middle East policing actions. Despite an advisory opinion by the World Court that delinquent nations should pony up their full share for all the U.N.'s activities, Russia has flatly refused to pay for the Congo operation. Said Gromyko: "Let no one entertain the belief that the Soviet Union will divert a single kopeck to aiding...
Part of Graham Greene is genius and part sheer fudge, but which part is which and in what proportion? After following Greene through a dozen books from the London Embankment to the banks of the Congo (with scene-setting rainwater running down the back of his neck all the while), the reader sees at last that more than half of Greene's attraction lies in this uncertainty. The republication of this 1934 novel (Greene's fifth), never widely read in the U.S. or in Great Britain, is a fresh and welcome opportunity to test-taste the mixture...