Down the hill from Leopoldville's Lovanium University last week streamed 192 weary members of the Congo's Parliament. Some joined their families; others headed for the bars and a night on the town. The parliamentarians figured that they deserved a celebration. After two weeks of noisy debate behind a barbed-wire fence, they had finally agreed on a government for the chaotic Congo.
It had not been easy. United Nations Congo Chief Dr. Sture Linner and his aides had struggled day and night to collect the legislators, get them to sit down and get to work. But throughout the tedious session, Katanga, the...
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