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...Congo's most serious flare-up since Katanga's stubborn secession finally was crushed a year ago, this latest bloodbath suddenly erupted in early January in Kwilu province, 250 miles east of Leopoldville. Fortnight ago, roving gangs of youths hacked to death three Belgian Roman Catholic priests-one of them bedridden. Directed by Peking-trained Pierre Mulele, onetime Education Minister under the late, left-leaning Patrice Lumumba, the terrorists often donned war paint, loincloths and crude red helmets, cried "Moscow!" and "Russia!" as they burned and looted. Scores of black local officials have been methodically butchered. Four village...
Only for a brief, early moment was there a flare of hope for quick settlement. After four days of talks, OAS mediators announced that Panama's Foreign Minister Galileo Solis and U.S. Special Envoy Edwin M. Martin had reached what sounded like an encouraging agreement. Under the arrangement, Panama would resume diplomatic relations with the U.S. "as quickly as possible," then within 30 days both countries would sit down to review "all existing matters" of conflict. But not long after the communique was broadcast, everything came unstuck. Claiming victory, Chiari announced that the U.S. was committed to renegotiate...
Over a breakfast of seaweed, bean paste soup and pickled cabbage in Tokyo's Imperial Hotel, Kennedy told Sukarno of U.S. concern that the Malaysian crisis would flare into full-scale war. Behind Bobby's soothing words was the clear implication that the U.S. might curb its $12 million aid program to the chaotic and nearly bankrupt Indonesian economy. Sukarno got the message, expressed a willingness to discuss the crisis with Malaysia's Prime Minister Tunku Abdul Rahman and with Philippines President Diosdado Macapagal, who also opposes the federation. At week's end Bobby flew...
...Dominican Republic, whose constitution al Presidents were ousted by military coup. Honduras, poor even by Central American standards, desperately needs Alliance for Progress aid ($4.2 million in fiscal 1963). Recognition of the Dominican Republic will enable the U.S. to keep a closer eye on a potentially dangerous Castroite guerrilla flare-up there. The soldiers running the two countries made only distant promises of new elections, but the U.S. considered it a start. As one Washington official put it: "Withholding recognition was a necessary step. But nonrecognition, in the long run, is not a satisfactory policy. Nonrecognition has never beaten anybody...
...banked fires that could crackle into life at any moment. In the Mideast, the Arab states threaten war if Israel goes ahead next spring with its planned diversion of the River Jordan's waters. In Laos, the fighting between the Communist Pathet Lao and the neutralists could flare any time. In Brazil, runaway inflation threatens the nation with chaos. There are incipient crises in Chile and Haiti, Cambodia and Malaysia, and a shooting war in Viet...