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...most that the U.S.-Belgian proposals might achieve would be to make it easier for such moderate African na tions as Nigeria, Tunisia and Sierra Leone to lend moral support to Tshombe. But what the Congo really needs is increased military and administrative assistance, aimed at building an army that will fight without white leadership and a civil service that won't steal the country blind. Rather than trying to polish Tshombe's ineradicably tarnished image through hopeful half-measures, Brussels and Washington would do better sending him increased logistic and material support. After all, Mike Hoare...
...takes to mold an effective army and an efficient administration. His refusal to "Africanize" at all cost is part of the reason why he is beyond the pale of his peers in other African nations. And yet a sizable number of whites have stayed on in such places as Nigeria and Ghana, where they are welcomed but not overly publicized...
JAMES H. MEREDITH University of Ibadan Nigeria, West Africa...
...Even though, by latest count, 15 other African countries have TV. Among them: the ex-French Congo, Gabon, the Ivory Coast, Kenya, Liberia, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the Sudan, Uganda...
...seldom vice versa. Though they primarily serve the Moslem world, most are Christians. The giant among them, Yusuf Bedas, 51, began as a moneychanger operating out of two small rooms in 1948; now his Intra Bank has assets of more than $1 billion and branches from New York to Nigeria. He is building another branch on Paris' Champs Elysées, last week bought a four-story Rome palazzo that will become Italy's first Lebanese bank, and early next year will move into a 22-story headquarters now going up in Beirut. Another former moneychanger, George Jabbour...