Word: congos
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...between grandiloquent pronouncements and reality gets pretty wide in the Congo these days. But at least it was a start...
...continued to have the Congo on its mind and wished it didn't. Items...
...After a bitter parliamentary fight, the General Assembly voted 53-24 to seat President Joseph Kasavubu as the legal representative of the Congo, overriding the diehard minority of Afro-Asians who still support his bitter rival, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba...
...Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjold told the General Assembly that the U.N. Congo command was virtually bankrupt, largely because of the refusal of the Soviet Union to contribute, and would have to suspend operations unless someone (a euphemism for the U.S.) anteed up $22 million forthwith...
...conspicuous indulgence: buxom, blonde Irma Capece Minuto, his on-again-off-again sweetheart, whom Farouk may marry some time. Near Farouk's old capital, Cairo, the son of another dejobbed African leader was studying diligently at French and Arabic. The student: Patrice Lumumba Jr., son of the Congo's on-again-off-again Premier...