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Prime among the Soviets' goals is to disarm the U.S., if possible, by talk. In this they have had some success. For 27 months, while the Soviets dragged out the nuclear test-ban talks at Geneva, the U.S. has refrained from nuclear testing without any guarantee that the U.S.S.R. was doing the same. Last week the Atomic Energy Commission warned that a continued unpoliced moratorium presents "risks to free world supremacy in nuclear weapons...
Opening the Jails. As a first step, Hammarskjold proposed to disarm all the Congolese troops. This would mean disarming not only Mobutu's central Congo army, but also the army of Katanga's Moise Tshombe and the Lumumbaist rebels in Eastern and Kivu provinces; perhaps overoptimistically, Hammarskjold hoped they could be induced to stack arms and retire to training camps. Next, the scattered legislators of the Congo's Parliament would be brought together to form a new government under U.N. supervision. The U.N. would ask all factions to free all political prisoners, a step which admittedly would...
...favorite Communist. So did the report that Chairman Liu had boasted that his country now has four nuclear reactors in operation and will soon explode its first atom bomb. Once again, Moscow appeared to be trying to use the threat of China's nuclear potential to disarm the West, while simultaneously telling Peking that with just a few years' patience Communism could peacefully attain absolute military and economic superiority over the West...
...week's end rumors swirled through Léopoldville that the U.N. would disarm Mobutu's army, but Dayal's men denied it. Timorous Joseph Kasavubu sat in his presidential palace, sending out vague messages of endorsement for Mobutu but too frightened to get involved openly. Patrice Lumumba, nipping heavily at an always present bottle, also remained at home, awaiting the day when the confused maneuvering would let him emerge as the real boss again. If he did, it would probably not be long before he invited back all the Russian "technicians" that Mobutu had kicked...
...face the 1,300 cheering, booing, catcalling delegates. Defending the Atlantic alliance against foregone defeat, he made the speech of his life. "Are we so simple," he asked, "as to believe that the Soviet Union is not going to use the power put into its hands if you unilaterally disarm? The West must retain nuclear weapons so long as the Soviet Union has them." Scornfully, he turned on some who argued that Britain could unilaterally disarm its nuclear strength without leaving NATO: "Would these people follow the cowardly, hypocritical course of saying 'We don't want nuclear bombs...