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...reported TIME Correspondent Eric Robins last week from Elisabethville, the dry and dusty capital city of the province that wants to be a nation-the Congo's Katanga. Only a few miles away are the mine shafts and chimneys of the huge copper and cobalt complex that makes secessionist Katanga the envy of its neighbors. For months the United Nations had kept its uneasy peace in Katanga, always hopeful that somehow the territory could be brought back into the Congo fold. Now, for the second time in three months, the U.N. was trying, with no great success...
...Katanga shares a 1,100-mile border with Britain's tense Northern Rhodesia protectorate. Moreover, some Britons and Frenchmen also have heavy financial interests in Katanga itself,* mostly through part ownership of the rich Union Minière du Haut-Katanga, one of the world's biggest copper and cobalt producers, which (according to a report by U.N. Acting Secretary-General U Thant) has been supplying arms to Katanga...
Among economists and financiers, the decision to reduce silver to a free market metal, like copper or tin, won resounding applause. On the silver market itself, the immediate repercussions were a jump in prices from 91? to just over a dollar an ounce and a sudden upsurge in silver-mining stocks. Whether this upward trend continues will determine how the battle lines will be drawn when Kennedy formally asks for legislation to discontinue silver as currency backing in the next session of Congress. If prices soar much higher, industrial silver users will surely put up a howl...
...this has earned La Générale some harsh public criticism, it has also paid hard dividends. La Générale's hulking Katanga satellite-Union Miniėre du Haut-Katanga-continues to produce 8% to 10% of the free world's copper, some 25% of its germanium, 65% of its cobalt. Throughout the Congo, La Générale's subsidiaries still act as the prime exporters and importers, miners and managers, and are a mighty force in autos, oil, cotton, sugar, rubber, real estate, banking and insurance...
...sawed in half, suspends the motor separately from the table to reduce the rumble even below its already low figure. A special belt had to be used to drive the table, since the one supplied by Rek-O-Kut was not adaptable for such use. A sheet of copper lies under the whole unit, grounded by special cable to the Marants Pre-amplifier. As a result of these precautions total noise in the Humphrey system has been reduced to the point where it is completely inaudible with the volume control wide open...