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CAIRO last week wore the synthetic festive air peculiar to Nasserism. In English, Arabic and Swahili, signs and pennants screamed: "Death to Lumumba's Murderers"; "French Killers, Hands Off Algiers"; "Freedom. Freedom to Kenyatta." As the smiling U.A.R. President arrived at Cairo University auditorium to welcome delegates to the grandiosely named third All-Africa People's Conference, phalanxes of young Arabs clapped rhythmically and shouted "Nas-ser." Framed against a huge black map of Africa with a red flaming torch thrust into its Congo heart, Nasser told the assembled delegates: "Nothing is more touching or close...
Several readers have drawn our attention to your editorial, "Lumumba's Death" in the Harvard CRIMSON of February 15, 1961. It is generally felt that its interpretation of recent history in the Congo does grave injustice, not only to Belgium and its Government, but also to the United States and its new Administration...
Five weeks ago, the pro-Lumumba troops and goon squads in Kivu went on a drunken rampage, seeking revenge for Lumumba's death. One 75-year-old nun was thrown from a truck, and while she lay in the dust, with both arms and her pelvis broken, was' raped by eleven soldiers. An American missionary girl was held prisoner for days and raped four times. One of the biggest laughs was to rip the clothes off white women and force them to dance about on sharp gravel, chanting such phrases as "I murdered Lumumba, the Christ...
...chief problem among the local leaders is Stanleyville's pro-Communist boss and Patrice Lumumba's heir, Antoine Gizenga, who nervously decided to go to Madagascar, then obeyed direct Russian orders to stay home. But Gizenga's empire is shrinking; last week part of it got chopped off into the next state of Maniema. Gizenga's home ground is Leopoldville, and he does not even speak the common Stanleyville tongue, Swahili...
...were whittling away at the black regimes of the neighboring Ivory Coast and Togo, both of which Osagyefo (pronounced Oh-sah-jee-foe) would dearly love to annex. B.A.A.'s men were also active in the Congo, where Nkrumah sent top B.A.A. Agent Nathaniel Welbeck to guide Patrice Lumumba and advance his plan to bring the 14 million Congolese into Greater Ghana's political league. When Lumumba's death shattered this hope, Congo President Kasavubu cabled Nkrumah to stay out of the independent Congo's internal affairs, to which Osagyefo last week huffed in reply, "Every...