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...flaming Congo, Johannesburg Correspondent Lee Griggs questioned Premier Patrice Lumumba just before he left...
...York's International Airport, when Lumumba and self-styled Congo Developer Louis Detwiler arrived early one morning, they were met by a probing team made up of Contributing Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, New York Correspondent Serrell Hillman and Researcher Gayle Williams...
...Lodge glanced up at the six visiting wives and widows of the crewmen of the downed RB-47E (TIME, July 25) and damned the Soviet show as "a pretty revolting piece of hypocrisy." Most important, Lodge called the Soviets on their threat to airlift Red troops into the chaotic Congo in defiance of U.N. attempts to bring about order (see FOREIGN NEWS). "With other United Nations members," said Lodge, "we will do whatever may be necessary to prevent the intrusion of any military forces not requested by the United Nations." The firm rejoinder-for the moment, at least -took...
...using cheap talk to show Communists the world over that nobody can be more militant than Nikita. One sign of a bluff called came last week as the U.N. Security Council prepared to vote on a resolution calling for Belgian troops to withdraw "speedily" from the Congo. Russia's Vasily Kuznetsov grinned sheepishly and stopped protesting that the Congolese wanted military help only from the peace-loving Soviets. As open laughter sounded in the hall, the Soviet delegate cast his vote for the West-backed resolution, dropped his own resolution calling for withdrawal within three days...
...United Nations, once dismissed as that debating society on the East River, last week saved the Congo from collapse. With order breaking down, with Belgian paratroopers and mutinous Congolese troops at deadly loggerheads, the U.N. swiftly put together a force that stemmed the slide toward chaos. It was the U.N.'s finest hour, the greatest accomplishment in its short, 15-year history...