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...future can be saved only by action -strong action!" he cried last week amid the ugly echoes of Moscow's threats, and announced that he was ready to contribute Indian combat troops to beef up Hammarskjold's Congo force...
Hastily, the Afro-Asians reached agreement at last on a resolution that most could support. Its main provisions: 1) the U.N. is to stop the Congo's civil war, using force if necessary to prevent clashes; 2) the opposing Congolese army units (Gizenga's, Mobutu's, Tshombe's) should be disarmed under U.N. control and taken out of politics; 3) all Belgians and other foreign military and political personnel should be forced out of the country; 4) Parliament is to be reconvened...
...detected a couple of dangerous loopholes. The resolution said nothing about the shipment of foreign arms and equipment into the Congo, and did not give Hammarskjold's men the right to intercept such contraband. This was, after all, the key to peace. But when the U.S. proposed amendments to close these loopholes, some of the resolution's backers were strangely reluctant to agree; one of them was Nasser's U.A.R., which had been trafficking in arms for Gizenga for some weeks and perhaps wanted to continue doing...
After Khrushchev's attack last fall, Hammarskjold became notably more cautious in the Congo, shied away from involvement in the Laos squabble, on the ground that the Russians were waiting for just such an opportunity to bring him down...
Planes over the Sudan. But Western experts doubt that Khrushchev is prepared for really serious intervention in the Congo. If the Russians tried to move into the Congo, they would face as many difficulties as the U.N.-or Patrice Lumumba -and they know it. Even providing major aid to Gizenga would be enormously difficult. In the deep Sudan interior, the overland roads are perilous, and planes can bring in only a trickle of supplies, even if the Sudan permitted overflights (which it has so far refused to do). If the Congo ever became a theater for a clash between East...