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Against the 4,000 steel-helmeted cops guarding Tokyo's Diet building, Zengakuren threw in more than 14,000 students who charged with cries of "Kill Kishi," "Down with the treaty," "Ike, stay home." Pulling away a barricade of parked police trucks, 3,000 of them finally thrust their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FOREIGN RELATIONS: The No. 1 Objective | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

The warlike Lulua reacted with spears, knives and sharpened sticks, killing hundreds of Baluba, burning their huts and carrying off their women. Only Belgian armed intervention, coupled with the mass removal of tens of thousands of Baluba to another region, stopped the blood bath.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: A Blight at Birth | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

Thus, tribalism may yet tear the vitals out of the new Congo before it even gets its start as a nation, just as it has been the political plague everywhere in Africa. For to conservative tribal rulers, democracy is a mysterious and not entirely welcome concept. Tribal elders do not...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: A Blight at Birth | 6/27/1960 | See Source »

¶ At Luebo, Baluba tribesmen armed with flintlock rifles and spears set fire to 200 homes and huts and slaughtered at least 18 Lulua tribesmen. Lulua warriors retaliated by raiding nearby Baluba villages, and six more died.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BELGIAN CONGO: Late Returns | 6/6/1960 | See Source »

No Cheesecake. Since the great majority of Africans are illiterate, the illustration is what sells the product. What matters most is how the African himself is presented. He resents being pictured with G string and spears, yet does not want anyone to suggest that he merely apes the Europeans. Most...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BUSINESS ABROAD: Admen in Africa | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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