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After three months of weary deadlock, Belgium finally got a new government. It was about time. Its Congo empire lost, its economy lagging, the nation was suffering from a severe crisis of morale. Rich and robust a decade ago, it has become the Common Market's weakest link. Mobs last winter had run through the streets, hurling cobblestones, shouting hate. The two traditional political foes-the Socialists and the Social Christians-bickered on and on. Then last week they buried the hatchet and joined to form a coalition government...
Across the Border. Angola's troubled area is the sprawling Congo district on the northern frontier. There the rainy season turned roads into quagmires of oozing mud, and the elephant grass grows eight-feet high, making concealment a simple matter for the terrorists who slipped across the border by night from President Joseph Kasavubu's Republic of the Congo. Most are followers of a determined, softspoken, exiled African Angolan named Holden Roberto, 36, who has spent months organizing the revolt from the headquarters of his Union of the Populations of Angola* in Léopoldville, the Congo...
Voice of the Church. The Portuguese authorities have ordered white settlers out of large portions of the Congo province because of lack of enough troops to defend them. The army, aided by Portuguese farmer vigilante groups, has arrested and often shot suspects by the score in other areas. When arrested African Angolans spoke up in their own defense, complaining of the lack of civil rights and freedom of speech, military courts slapped extra charges on them for insulting the state. Portuguese planes bombed and strafed whole villages in revenge for the murders of white men, women and children. "They kill...
Marshal Tito also pressed his foreign policy on everyone who would listen. To hear him tell it, the universal enemies are colonialism, the Belgians in the Congo, and Western imperialists in general, while Belgrade-style neutralism is Africa's only salvation. By the time he got up to Morocco, "the struggle of the Algerian people for freedom" was at the top of his list...
...President rightly suggests, there are lessons to be learned from the fiasco that has been called a Cuban policy, the need for readjustment is certainly the main one Castro, as well as Kennedy, realizes that Cuban autonomy is at stake. Recent Cuban votes against Russia on the Congo and on the removal of Hammarskjold lend hope that the Prime Minister fears a loss of cherished independence on the left...