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...like old-style Chinese warlords, the Algerian people were wearying of conflict. Mobs surged through the city in defiance of the curfew, disgustedly shouting: "Seven years of war is enough." Said one of their leaders: "We don't want fighting among brothers. We don't want a Congo here." Over and over, the crowds roared: "Toute la clique au poteau [To hell with everybody]." Most ominous note for the squabbling leaders was a silent march by 16,000 members of the powerful Union of Algerian Workers. At the Algiers prefecture they presented a declaration calling for a truce...
...Ruble. U Thant-who has earned Moscow's respect-chiefly wanted to discuss the fact that the U.N. is broke, largely because the Communist bloc has not put up a ruble toward the $140 million annual cost of the Congo and Gaza Strip policing operations...
...Gradually the world price inched back to $1.20, which is just about what it costs the industry's many marginal operators to produce tin. But recently the price sank to a low of $1.03, and for this the producers-in Malaya, Indonesia, Thailand, Bolivia, Nigeria and the Congo-blame the U.S. Reason: the U.S. announcement last fall that it would sell off 50,000 long tons of tin from its overloaded strategic stockpile of 341,000 tons. Those 50,000 tons are almost one-third as much as the free world produces in a year...
...disposal program. Washington officials contend that the market will be able to absorb the sales from the stockpile because world production has fallen an average of 26,000 tons short of demand in each of the last four years-largely because of political crises in the Congo and Indonesia. The man who will direct the U.S.'s sales, General Services Administration Executive John Croston, has tried to calm fears of U.S. dumping by saying that the sales would be spaced out over five years, with just enough marketed at any one time to fill the gap between free world...
...enemies are the 5,000 black terrorists, organized and led from Leopoldville in the neighboring Congo by expatriate Angolan Nationalist Leader Holden Roberto, who has kept the revolt against Portugal's harsh colonial rule simmering for 17 months. Convinced by their witch doctors that Portuguese bullets would turn to water, and smeared with white paste that they thought would make them invisible, the rebels last year began an orgy of terror. Armed with machetes and crude rifles made from pipe, old cans and rubber bands, they mutilated their victims because of the native belief that mutilation prevents a body...