Word: coppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Exports: Negligible. Per capita income: $46. U.S. aid (1961): $100,000. Rich iron ore, copper deposits to be developed by West-financed, $190 million project. Neighboring Morocco claims whole country...
Exports: Normally cobalt, copper, diamonds, palm oil, bananas. Per capita income: $90. U.S. aid (1961): $13.1 million. U.N. force defeated Communist efforts to infiltrate Congo, but has failed to end copper-rich Katanga's secession after two years. Even if once-prosperous country is reunited, it will take years to create a nation...
Exports: Coffee, cotton, copper. Per capita income: $68. U.S. aid (1961): $200,000. Rich land has no white-settler problem, with independence in October, will have moderate, pro-Western government. Major problem: lack of cohesive, national outlook...
...repeated concessions, such as a revised constitution to give Katanga greater local autonomy in a federal Congo. But Tshombe wanted all or nothing: virtual independence for Katanga, his own gendarmery, and a corps of foreign mercenaries to run it. While he still would not agree to divvy up the copper profits with the Central government, Tshombe announced a $2,000,000 gift to the Congo, "to ease the catastrophic position and especially aid the poor and unemployed." In the latest six-week round of talks, the only thing Tshombe would agree on was formation of four advisory committees to discuss...
Died. Frederick Hill Meserve, 96, retired textile executive whose hobby of collecting likenesses of President Abraham Lincoln grew into a unique historical archive (more than 200,000 pictures of Civil War personalities), the source for the busts of the 16th President on the $5 bill and the copper 1 ?piece, who also turned up a rare photo of Assassin John Wilkes Booth attentively listening in the audience at Lincoln's Second Inaugural Address; in Manhattan...