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...shouldn't Katanga have the right to "self-determination"? The overall area of the Congo is not defined by clear ethnic or geographic factors, but simply by the fact that it was carved out 76 years ago by Belgium as a colony...
Fact of History. But the real issues are not the nature of Tshombe's "mercenaries," or self-determination (Katanga is not a nation, and its people probably understand little about their real situation), or Tshombe's antiCommunism. As a fact of history, the Congo exists, and it depends on mineral-rich Katanga for economic survival. Without Katanga the rest of the Congo may well slide into chaos and possibly Communism. Privately, many in Britain and France-and some observers in the U.S.-are willing to let this happen, and retain Katanga as the one viable part...
Unlike other African nationalists, Julius Nyerere, 38, educated at Edinburgh University, is a moderate who has kept Tanganyika an island of peace surrounded on all sides by strife and violence, notably the war in the neighboring Congo (see map, p. 21). Firmly in control of the Tanganyika African National Union, which holds 70 of the 71 seats in the new National Assembly, Nyerere believes that multiracialism is a sound policy for the emerging African states, has kept as his closest advisers former Governor Sir Richard Turnbull, who is now Governor General, and Finance Minister Sir Ernest Vasey. "Both the color...
While U.N. and Katangese troops fiercely battled in the Congo, a conference in Nigeria last week stubbornly insisted that man's conflicts may ultimately be solved by law rather than war. Chief advocate of that "grand design": Washington Lawyer Charles S. Rhyne, onetime president of the American Bar Association and now chairman of its special Committee on World Peace Through the Rule of Law. Said Rhyne: "We must do the seemingly impossible by turning the opinion of most men from the view that our task is Utopian and beyond reach into the view that if man can split...
...gleaming new Federal Palace Hotel, lawyers and jurists from 33 African and Middle East nations unanimously adopted an eight-page document known as the Consensus of Lagos. Most significant proposal: to establish a permanent Organization of African States for the peaceful settlement of disputes, such as the Congo's civil war. As a model for the organization, Lawyer Rhyne pointed to the European Court of Justice, the forum for adjudication of trade conflicts within the European Common Market whose decisions are binding on member states. In the past six months, said Rhyne, the European Court has settled more cases...