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...help and guidance by the two major world powers. "The struggle." said he, "is changing. It's not a question of troops marching across a frontier. We face the problems of having 'Spains' all over in the next decade. Laos is an example-Viet Nam. the Congo. It is a question of subversion and paramilitary political techniques. The force of events in those areas will mean military and paramilitary struggles for the next decade...
Everyone demanded a right to dictate the way to peace in the Congo, but few wanted to pay for the privilege. For weeks U.N. Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold had pleaded, cajoled, warned and wheedled in the effort to rake up funds for his 20,000-man Congo force. But member nations still owed $24 million for his 1960 operations alone, not to mention the $120 million he would have to spend this year. Of the U.N.'s 99 members, only six (Australia, Ireland, The Netherlands, Canada, Britain, the U.S.) had paid or promised to pay any of last year...
...demanded that the U.N. get out of the Congo within 30 days. Before they left, he urged the U.N. troops to arrest Katanga President Moise Tshombe and Congolese Army General Joseph Mobutu...
...Hammarskjold. said Stevenson, the U.S. would support him "with all our strength." Through it all, Hammarskjold himself sat impassively, looking like a man who had other problems to worry about. He had. One of them is the future of the U.N. operations boss in the Congo. Indian Diplomat Rajeshwar Dayal, whose inflexible policies and personal prejudices have won him the enmity of every Congolese leader from President Joseph Kasavubu on down. When Dayal was called back to New York for "consultation" fortnight ago, most Congolese happily assumed that Hammarskjold was planning to replace him. But last week Hammarskjold ordered Dayal...
Most of the terrorists are members of a mildly left-wing exile group known as the Union of the Populations of Angola, which maintains its headquarters in the Congo capital of Leopoldville. U.P.A.'s founder and president, a 36-year-old Angolan named Holden Roberto, returned last week to Leopoldville from lobbying around U.N. headquarters in Manhattan to take command of the rebel campaign. Deploring the slayings in Angola, he insisted that his men had been ordered only to begin a campaign of sabotage and general disobedience, but had gotten out of hand when the Portuguese ordered a series...