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...voices and small bills unpaid marked the beginning of the disintegration of another of mankind's great dreams." Hence, the U.S. would chip in "a sizable voluntary contribution" beyond its normal 32.51% quota, just as it had done in 1960, when Washington picked up 50% of the entire Congo check. Probable total U.S. contribution: $60 million...
...smiling U.A.R. President arrived at Cairo University auditorium to welcome delegates to the grandiosely named third All-Africa People's Conference, phalanxes of young Arabs clapped rhythmically and shouted "Nas-ser." Framed against a huge black map of Africa with a red flaming torch thrust into its Congo heart, Nasser told the assembled delegates: "Nothing is more touching or close to the heart than meetings at intervals of brothers in arms, partners in the same fight, soldiers with...
Even Lumumba's heir in the Congo. Moscow-and Cairo-blessed Antoine Gizenga, has little to show from Nasser's friendship. Says Pierre Mulele, Gizenga's "chief of mission" in Cairo: "All the aid we have got from the U.A.R. is the visa that was given me to come here." Mulele lives as Nasser's guest in a suite in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, comforted by a big Siemens radio receiver to keep him in touch with Stanleyville. One Cairo diplomat sums up Nasser's diminished stature: "Nobody has much to hope...
What with the humiliating Congo defeat, the winter's long labor riots and the nation's economic malaise, Belgium was limp, dispirited and hardly in a mood for another round of national elections. Not even the campaign speeches of popular Paul-Henri Spaak. who quit as NATO Secretary-General to take over leadership of the Socialists, could whip up the listless crowds. Spaak's electioneering Socialists blamed Premier Gaston Eyskens and his Catholic-backed Social Christians for the Congo debacle, and attacked Eyskens' sensible but unpopular economic austerity program-price of the lost Congo- because...
...state of panic. Fearful settlers from the back country streamed into Luanda with wives, children and household goods. They besieged airlines and shipping companies for passage home. Depositors stood in long lines outside Luanda banks, waiting to withdraw their money. In the northern region near the Congo, where some 200 settlers were massacred by black Angolan raiders last month, the Portuguese army issued submachine guns to the few settlers who chose to remain, and ordered them to spend their nights herded together at strong points...