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...everyone had forgotten the savagery that lay just beneath the Congo veneer of nationhood. Like an ugly scene glimpsed by the lightning of hot equatorial skies, the Congo government again stood revealed as incapable of governing, its army a disorganized rabble...
...Rumor. Fortnight ago, several hundred Congolese army troops arrived at the Lualaba River port town of Kindu in Kivu Province, an area of the eastern Congo lightly controlled by local authorities and protected only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were...
...When the Congo's martyr-demagogue. Patrice Lumumba, died last winter deep inside Katanga, territory of his bitter political foes, the Katangese Minister of the Interior said: "If people accuse us of killing Lumumba, I will reply, 'Prove it.' " For six months, a U.N. Commission of Investigation* has been trying to prove it. Its report last week, based largely on hearsay, hunches and gossip, did not furnish proof, but added considerable evidence to show that Lumumba was indeed murdered in cold blood-and probably with the connivance of Moise Tshombe's own Katanga government...
...Elisabethville last week, Tshombe angrily denied all the charges, pointed out that the report had been put together in faraway Geneva. Asked Tshombe: "Why didn't the commission come to Katanga?" The commissioners had tried, but the Congo Government refused to let them...
...hallmark of his friend Teddy Roosevelt. Long before he merged his prospering advertising agency with another to make McCann-Erickson, he had piled up a fortune by investing in products for which few others saw any future. Once, for example, he heard about an unsuccessful roofing material called Congo. He bought the company, painted the material a different color, turned it into a profitable floor covering (Congoleum). In his lifetime his name was associated not only with advertising but with such pioneering firms as Bon Ami and Technicolor...