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...definition proved vague enough to permit some touchy antagonists to get invitations. Of the 24 nations so far coming to Belgrade,* Ethiopia and Somalia have a longstanding border dispute that occasionally erupts into bloody frontier incidents. At one stage of the Congo crisis, Yugoslavia, the U.A.R., Guinea and Mali split with India, Ethiopia and other neutralist countries over which Congolese government to recognize. More importantly, the nations meeting at Belgrade habitually split into two loose groupings-one composed of actively anti-Western African nations (including the Algerian rebel F.L.N.), the other predominantly Asian, led by India, and more moderate...
...Burma, Ceylon, Ghana, Guinea, Ethiopia, Sudan, India, Indonesia, Yemen, Cambodia, Mali, Morocco, Nepal, Saudi Arabia, Somalia, United Arab Republic, Lebanon, Algerian Provisional Government (F.L.N.), Tunisia, Cyprus, Afghanistan, Cuba, Iraq, Yugoslavia; observer nations: Brazil, Bolivia. Possible participant: Cyrille Adoula of the Congo...
...rising Army colonels. To earn Wilson's degree of Master of Public Affairs, they spend hours in seminars, work summers in Government agencies. The goal is a graduate trained to use academic tools on ticklish public problems-from birth-control legislation in Connecticut to cannibalism in the Congo. Just that sort of activist Wilson alumnus is now hard at work at the middle levels of U.S. policy and diplomacy all over the world...
...Cabinda. Here the authorities recently tried to snuff out revolt by arresting all the local chiefs and every Cabindese who could read or write. Villages were put to the torch, and most of the colony's 60,000 natives fled across the border into former French and Belgian Congo. But even making a desert of Cabinda was not enough to end revolt. Last week a band of natives armed with homemade muzzle-loaders slipped back into Cabinda and ambushed a Portuguese patrol near Miconje...
Final arbiter of any new government will be Major General Joseph Mobutu and his undisciplined soldiery. They were still the most potent single force on the Congo scene. At week's end, Mobutu made his position clear in an order of the day to his troops. "The National Army cannot tolerate that the country be handed over to men who are guided by foreign influences," said Mobutu. "The Congo is independent and will stay independent; it is not for sale to any ideological bloc." This declaration seemed to rule out just about everybody in the Congo-except maybe Mobutu...