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University Daily Kansan Wednesday. Feb. 14, 1962
Hope Again Seen for Congo
(By United Press International)
Time and again in a year and a half of turbulence and crisis there have been hopeful predictions that now at last peace gradually was being restored to the Congo.
And time and again these hopes have crumbled, washed away in bloodshed, the ambitions of rival leaders and a conflict of interest extending far beyond the borders of the Congo.
The present marks another period of hope.
CHIEF CONTRIBUTING factor is the new era of goodwill existing between President Moise Tshombe of secessionist Katanga province and the United Nations forces he once denounced.
Elisabethville dispatches scarcely concealing the astonishment of their authors report that Tshombe and Gurkha Col. S. Maitra now are blood-brothers as result of an impromptu ceremony on Indian independence day. They also report that Tshombe now counts U.N. Military Commander Brig. K. A. S. Raj "among my friends."
In contrast, is the background of recent events in which Col. Maitra's Ghurka troops used their knives enthusiastically on Katanga throats.
THE NEW SPIRIT of cooperation has not ended the Katanga secession, but it has led to the cautious belief that Tshombe is trying to carry out his agreement of last December to rid himself of his foreign troops and to recognize the authority of the central government under an arrangement which still would leave him considerable autonomy.
The case of Tshombe has been a curious one.
His secessionist cause roused great sympathy in Belgium, France and Great Britain whose citizens' are heavily invested in the Union Miière du Haut-Katanga, the combine which controls Katanga's great mineral wealth.
AS ILLUSTRATED by his newfound friendship for the Indians, Tshombe's own attitude has vacillated.
Outside Elisabethville and under
U. N. pressure he has made promises which he later renounced when he returned to the surroundings and influences of his own province. There, the European influence was profoundly opposed to U.N. intervention and many of Tshombe's white "mercenaries" actually were unpaid volunteers.
Katanga dispatches suggest that most of Tshombe's paid mercenaries now have departed, escorted out or just drifted away.
AMONG THEM was a mysterious Col. Roger Faulques, a Frenchman said to have been on the wrong side of the Algerian conflict and thus asked out of the French army. He was said to have played a dual political and military role, which strengthened Tshombe's determination against the United Nations but
WRA Installs Officers for Year
The Women's Recreation Association installed 1962 officers Thursday evening.
The new officers are Kathleen Riedel, WaKeeney junior, president; Joyce Sayre, Southwest City, Mo. sophomore, president elect; Eleanor Burkhead, Kansas City, Mo. sophomore, vice president; Sherry Wickliff, Mission junior, treasurer; Mary Mischler, Troy, Ohio, junior, corresponding secretary; Elizabeth Stockton, Independence, Mo., sophomore, recording secretary; Lindsey Easton, Lawrence sophomore, Playday assistant; Jerry Patterson, Lawrence senior, Playday chairman.
which at the same time alienated him to the Belgians.
Roberta Smith, Topea sophomore,
publicity chairman; Patricia Lee,
Independence, Mo., sophomore, minor
sports manager; Marilyn Matt.
Minneapolis freshman, basketball
manager; Marilyn Young, Scott City
junior, softball manager; Kelly Rankin,
Lawrence senior, volleyball
manager; Paula Schmanke, Ottawa
sophomore, hockey manager; Nancy
Mullinix, Kansas City junior, swimming
manager; Nancy Lintecum,
Prairie Village sophomore, business
manager.
Another item which seems to have contributed to Tshombe's recent docility has been the negotiations between the Union Miniere and the central Congo government of Premier Cyrille Adoula which may reopen the way for shipment of Katanga copper to its old Congo river port of Matadi. This could open up a new source of revenue to the central government and at the same time ease the Union Miniere's opposition to the Adoula government.
NROTC Gives Burge Recording
A gold label recording of the United States Marine Corps band was presented to Frank Burge, director of the Student Union, by the Navy ROTC unit yesterday.
The record unavailable commercially was presented "in appreciation for the Union's cooperation with various NROTC projects," Lt. Com. Robert L. Dodd said.
The recording was presented by Lt. Col. Marshall Campbell of the United States Marine Corps representing the Navy ROTC.
The NROTC department plans other gold label record presentations to Chancellor Wescoe and Prof. Russell Wiley, KU band director.
Couch Replaces Church
ST. LOUIS — (UPI)—Rabbi Julius J. Nodel of Temple Shaare Emeth here feels many people who have lost their religion "are seeking to regain it in their psychiatrist's office."
He said science has removed "some of our fears,but has produced new ones."
"Many people are living in the dark alleys of anxiety," he said. "Religion and psychiatry are not far apart. Both provide answers to the question, 'What is man?' . . . We should be willing to encourage any pursuit of knowledge."
RFK Speaks To Indo Students
JAKARTA. Indonesia — (UPI) — Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy told an audience of white-robed Indonesian students today that the annexation of Texas and subsequent U.S.-Mexican War was "not a very bright spot" in American history.
President Kennedy's younger brother made the statement in a rapid-fire give and take debate at the University of Indonesia on the second day of his visit to this nation of 3,000 islands.
A duck egg was hurled at him as he entered the auditorium but went wide of the mark and Kennedy took no notice of it. Communist threats to disrupt his visit so far have failed completely.
KENNEDY TOLD THE students that friendship between nations did not preclude disagreement.
He said Americans did not like the refusal of the neutralist nations conference at Belgrade last year to condemn Russia's atomic weapons tests, but "they are not going to pick up their marbles and go home."
WHEN ONE STUDENT raised the question of the Mexican War, which ended with cession of California and Texas to the United States, Kennedy said:
The students bombarded the youthful Attorney General with questions ranging from racial segregation to U.S. expansion in the Pacific in the 19th century.
"Some Texans might disagree, but I think it was unjustified. It was not a very bright spot in our history. Not one to be very proud of."
His frank response backfired on the questioner, who had hoped that Kennedy's answer could be used to justify Indonesia's nationalistic sentiments on the question of Dutch New Guinea.
Elbow Room
ALPINE, Tex. — (UPI) — There is plenty of living room in Brewster County, Tex. The county covers 6,208 square miles of West Texas and would encompass Rhode Island and Connecticut with room to spare.
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