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...unending drive to erode the foundations of U.S. power and prestige, Russia in recent months has been in a position to choose among several profitable cold-war theaters: Cuba, the Congo, Berlin. With such a profusion of attractive targets, why had Nikita Khrushchev chosen to push his attack hardest in an obscure piece of Asian jungle? Dangling like a plum from Asia's heartland, Laos borders on four non-Communist nations-Cambodia, Burma, Thailand and South Viet Nam. With the Laotians little interested in defending themselves and the U.S. half a world away, the temptation was irresistible-particularly...
...Congo itself was quiet-a minimum of killings, no invasions, no kidnapings. The noise was mostly to be heard 6,400 miles away in Manhattan, where Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko put on a show in the U.N. Assembly that went pretty far even for Gromyko...
...particular statement--"Belgian rule virtually forbade education in the Congo"--is a complete distortion of Belgium's educational accomplishments in the Congo...
...repeated statement that there were only a dozen Congolese university graduates at the time the Congo received its independence are entirely misleading. In addition to 30 university graduates, people with the equivalent of an American M.A. or Ph.D. degree, there were more than 1,000 enrolled Congolese college students in Belgium and the Congo. Africa's only two full-fledged universities and Africa's sole nuclear reactor are in the Congo. Add to that more than 17,000 men and women studying to be teachers, some 20,000 students in technical schools, and almost 18,000 in high school...
These statistics lay to rest some of the charges that have been so glibly made. In 52 years, Belgium achieved more educationally in the Congo--for the Congolese--than was accomplished in 90 years in most other African nations. Jan-Albert Goris Commissioner of Information, Minister Plenipotentiary