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Burundi's Foreign Minister Joseph Mbazumutima sneered that Premier Tshombe's white allies consider "the blacks, by definition, killers and liars." And Mali's Foreign Minister Ousman Ba even accused the U.S. of "massive cannibalism...
...Accusers. Led by Africa's radical hardcore-Ghana, Guinea, Algeria, Mali and Egypt-18 of the continent's 35 nations had signed the complaint. The signatories included the tiny leftist kingdom of Burundi, where Chinese influence is strong, and backwater states that once belonged to France: Central African Republic, Brazzaville Congo, Dahomey, Mauritania and Mali. Also on the list, however, were normally more moderate Ethiopia and the Sudan, and the Commonwealth nations of Kenya, Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia, of which better things should have been expected...
...leftists and their Communist backers seem determined to turn Lumumba into a martyr-saint. Bulgaria and Albania joined last week to praise the "great Congolese patriot" who symbolized the "heart of Africa" but was "brutally assassinated." The Ethiopian and Guinean delegations compared him to Hammarskjöld, while the Mali representative went one better and compared him to Hammarskjöld and John Kennedy...
...ties with Paris. The U.S. counseled the Nationalists against a quick break on the grounds that 1) if Red China sticks to its longstanding position that no country may have diplomats in both Peking and Taipei (a view repeated last week by barnstorming Red Premier Chou En-lai in Mali), De Gaulle would be acutely embarrassed and the onus will be on the Communists; 2) if Peking accepts a "two-China" policy, it would be a major Red switch that weakens phony Red claims to Formosa; 3) a two-China policy would also ease U.S. diplomatic problems in the United...
...their weapons expired with no response. "This is their last chance," roared the President. "All rebels found carrying arms will be shot immediately." But Keita's harsh threat sounded as empty as the echoing wastes of the Iforas. Merely keeping the 800-mile supply line open from Mali's capital city of Bamako to the ruggedly desolate Iforas hills has brought Keita's tottering treasury close to collapse...