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...TIME, Sept. 5). After the crash the IL-18 was briefly grounded. The trouble seemed to be with the engine mountings (as with its U.S. counterpart, the Lockheed Electra) and with the engines. But IL-18s kept landing at African airfields as Russia's contribution to the U.N. Congo airlift. Inference was that whatever ailed the plane had been mended. Not so, a Russian IL-18 crew member at an African airport guardedly informed a TIME correspondent last week. In addition to the crash last August, at least three other IL-18s have crashed on flights inside Russia. Each...
...Congo's town politicians bickered and battled, few of them had a thought for a greater tragedy unfolding in the remote bush of South Kasai. There 300,000 pathetic Baluba tribesmen, hurled out of their homelands last year by the tribal fighting, huddled homeless and hungry in a harsh, inhospitable region where few crops grew. Now, unless massive help arrived soon, many of them faced death from sheer starvation. Nearly all the children suffered from the dread protein-deficiency disease called kwashiorkor, which shriveled limbs, swelled bellies and fouled the blood. Already, several thousand adults and children have died...
Paradoxically, only a few hundred miles to the northwest, the Congo's lush Equator and Leopoldville provinces had bananas, nuts and palm oil aplenty. But the transport breakdown and regional feuding kept normal trading at a standstill. Only hope lies in the crash feeding programs undertaken by the United Nations, whose officials estimate that a minimum of 120 tons of food must be distributed daily, but until recently have had to make do with less than half that volume. To fill its supply pipelines, the U.N.'s Food and Agriculture Organization is canvassing U.N. member nations...
...certain whether it was Lumumba or Kasavubu who was the prisoner. When order was restored, Kasavubu decided that it was time to move Lumumba to a safer place. He opened negotiations with Katanga's Moise Tshombe. Late one night Lumumba was hustled on board a chartered Air Congo plane and delivered to Elisabethville. En route, the guards pummeled Lumumba so severely that the alarmed pilot went back to the cabin to warn against damage to the plane...
...students now receiving scholarships are from Nigeria, but during the fall five additional African nations agreed to participate. The new nations are Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika, Southern Rhodesia, and Nyasaland. In addition, negotiations are being carried on with the Congo and Northern Rhodesia...