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...Parliament to begin. United Nations troops waited to take up their posts as guards to ensure that no liquor, women or bribe money was smuggled in to addle the judgment of the Deputies. Only thing missing was the legislators themselves. Just at the moment when it seemed that the Congo's Parliament would reconvene to reunite the divided Congo nation, the whole project collapsed...
Atop the wreckage stood grinning, pop-eyed Moise Tshombe of separatist Katanga province. Fortnight earlier, Tshombe had talked his way out of his confinement in a Leopoldville villa with solemn pledges to merge Katanga with the rest of the Congo; as Moise left for home, he embraced his old enemies, showered them with compliments. But once he was back in the safety of Katanga, crafty Tshombe changed his tune. The agreement signed in Leopoldville was forced from him under duress, he sneered. Last week Tshombe's regime declared that Katanga would not give up its own separate currency...
Same Old Mess. A year after independence, the Congo's economy was a national mess. Katanga, whose copper mines have missed hardly a day's work through all the troubles, was booming. But in the rest of the Congo, 70% of the labor force was unemployed. Exports, which before independence averaged $20 million a month, had dropped to $6.5 million. Inflation had pushed food prices up 20%, and building construction was at a complete standstill. Yet, by African standards, the Congo is a rich country, and somehow things faltered on, thanks mainly to the U.N., which had poured...
...number only 10,000 unpaid men; and his only contact with them is through couriers, who take ten days to make the round trip between Leopoldville and Angola's desolate battlefields. "We have made mistakes and we are paying for them," he told his followers in the Congo. "We are now changing our tactics and retreating into the forests until the dry season is over...
...seldom vicious: for all their burdens, they tended to look upon their foreign masters with both humor and indulgence. It was the strange habits of the white men that intrigued them. Hats and shoes were something new, so one Madagascan artist sculpted a colonial wearing nothing else. In the Congo, an anonymous sculptor did a thick-lipped white sailor guzzling a mug of beer. The sailor wears a cap, a striped shirt, and seems properly in uniform-except that he is naked from the waist down...