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...saint and no deliberate marr tyr. He was a highly skilled physician who, out of a strong Christian faith and a sense of common humanity, had gone to the Congo to treat the sick. His death did more than prove that Black African civilization-with its elaborate trappings of half a hundred sovereignties, governments and U.N. delegations -is largely a pretense. The rebels were after all, for the most part, only a rabble of dazed, ignorant savages, used and abused by semi-sophisticated leaders...
Elliott Hunt Pendleton, "Speech of the Second Messenger (Oed. Tyr.). - [Sophocles...