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South of the Border. Dr. Koprowski's Wistar version of live vaccine got its mass test in 215,000 subjects in the Belgian Congo and Ruanda (TIME, Aug. 11). Variants developed by Lederle Laboratories since he left are being widely used in Latin America...
...greatest fear is to see Nyasaland dominated by apartheid-minded whites unrestrained by the more benign rule of the Colonial Office in London. Eventually, he hopes it will be linked to Tanganyika, parts of Northern Rhodesia, and possibly Uganda and Belgium's U.N. trust territory of Ruanda-Urundi...
They moved into the valley of the Ruzizi River, boundary between the U.N. trusteeship of Ruanda and the Congo proper. Working both sides of the stream, they got native chieftains to pass the word by jungle telegraph. At their chieftains' bidding, 215,504 men, women and children trooped down to rally points where the doctors were waiting with jugs of ice-cold Chat. In some cases, team members squirted the virus-containing liquid into the tribesmen's mouths; usually, they let them take it from a tablespoon. There were no ill effects, and team members have high hopes...
BISHOP ALOYSIUS BIGIRUMWANI, Apostolic Vicar of Ruanda Urundi (bordering on the Belgian Congo), is a descendant of the kings of the famed Watutsi tribe of giants. From a mountaintop mission at Nyundo, overlooking Lake Kivu and the flaring volcanoes of Nyiragongo and Nya-mulagira. tall (6 ft. 3 in.) Bishop Bigi-rumwani, 53, directs five white bishops and 471 priests, both white and Negro. Since his consecration in 1952, 20,000 converts have joined the church in his own diocese, but two-thirds of the half-million tribesmen in the territory he administers as senior bishop are still pagan...
...blacks, who call themselves Shirazis and claim descent from Persian conquerors. The two factions came together under the leadership of 52-year-old Abeid Annane Karume, described by one local Briton as "the Ernie Bevin of the Zanzibar workingmen's movement." The son of a slave woman from Ruanda-Urandi, a longtime merchant seaman whose 22 years at sea carried him to most of the world's ports, including the U.S., Karume eventually rose to quartermaster and then settled down to run a syndicate of motorboats in Zanzibar harbor...