THURSDAY. AUGUST 2.- 1962
a mm Behind the News tumunummmumummin=imum
CYRILLE ADOULA
... key figures in current Congo questions
Congo Fuse
Burns Again
• The Congo with secessionist
= • province Katanga is back in the
It - - headlines. Actually, it has
never been away. Underneath a
troubled calm theie, economics
E and ego have been, creating a
E situation which may explode
E
E into another area of hot war.
g Increased attention has been
E- given the Congo of late because
14 . of financial strains within the
E country itself as well as the
.4 United Nations, which supports
= 17,156 troops there.
=
Congo Budget Problems
= The central government of
• Premier Cyrille Adoula faces
mammoth - budget problems.
• fihe•country's first budget, ap
g: proved in early June, foresees
§ a $232 million deficit.
E . The problem is heightened by
= the.continued rehisal of Katan
ga President Moise Tshoinbe to
E. unite his province—which' wa:s
=
g part of the Congo pnder the
E Belgians—with the • Leopold
o vine government. Katanga con
'n - trols almost half of the former
• colony's wealth and sees little
= reason for joining an unstable
= -
regime to the north even
;ff 'though that 'instability is in
ff :large measure caused by the
ff - absence of Katanga.
_ .
Es The United Nations faces
E - money problems of its own. The
= Congo force costs the U.N.
E .$9.5 milion a month and sev
• eral member states have re
!. fused to share in payments for
:4- this force. The U.N. Secretariat
reported, for example. that as.
E..: of May 31, 551,496,695 was ,
• owed on 1960-61 Congo assess-`
= ments alone'.
=
Kaianges Secession '
• But enough of dry figures—
• which, however, loom very
large in the life expectancy of
the infant Congo and possibly
= for 'its U.N. "nurse" as -well.
= Two summers ago the . Congo
E
hit the front pages because of
violence following independ
• ence. Maladies which had de
• veloped unmolested for years
• became obvious when Tshombe
• took Katanga out of the Congo
• July 11, 1960, not two' weeks
• after the Congo's separation
• from Belgium. Native Katan
• gans and the British and Bel-
E- gian mining interests were say
• ing, "The Katanga should be
El run by . Katanga: people." The
new country soon became an
E.- arena for the cold war manue-'
verings of Russia and the
United States as well as the
• conflicting interests of the Ka
i tangans, Congolese, Belgians
E and U.N. advisors.
=The Union Miniere firm had
E `become part of the Katanga
social- fabric as well as politi
cally powerfuL The rich U.M.'s
= influence today is evidenced by
= President,Kennedy's recent
E - vexation ith the firm' for pay
• ing -its taxes to , Tshombe and
lei thus supporting him rather
: • than 'Adoula's central regime.
• One can visualize neither a Ka
langa without U.M. nor a U.M.
MOISE TSHOMBE
By KAY MILLS
Editor
as it exists today without Ka-
`tang.% BO many-cannot see the ri
Congo as a stable, pro-West
ally- without the mineral re
sources of Katanga.
. =
Despite blame in its past - 74 1
handling of.the Congo, the West Fil
today is facing squarely the El •
,
complex • crisis in the Congo. El ous - Lrlg
Added to economic woes and E.
Katanga secession are the deli- 77-',
cate relations among the Con- r---'! f
.
go's. 200 tribes. These people, :4.
comprising 70 ethnic groups :4 equests
and - using 400 dialects, live a . '
restlessly in this country, one- E.'; , -
thirdthe • • size of Fare United 1 1 .;
States. _' ncrease
t.:
.;-A Political Entity? . 2
. The West also considers the =3 ' Requests have been increasing;
:lin the past few weeks for copies
question of whether the Repub-
.Sof the town housing list compiled'
lie Of the Congo is indeed a
:-,-., by the State College Chamber of,
political entity:- Must emerging
nations accept the boundaries ,Commerce. Chamber offic i a 1 s
-.2.said recently: ' 1
drawn for them in the 19th cen
tury by men thousands of miles The increased number of re
liquests :was attributed to the fact,
away? The limits of the Bel
gianiCongo (and thus the reel that the fall term is approaching'
ki ii land people arc seeking housing'
ogifited boundaries of the new
t i.- . .1f0r September.
republic) were determined at - I
the Berlin Conference in 1885. 1 .- -1 ABOUT 30 ROOMS, both sin-
Arid a second question raised FT;gle and doubler and apartments;
is 'Whether a provice may ; se- =mare listed on the -present mimeo
cede. / The United States said algraphed list which is available on;
"flo" i
u i n its Civil War. - Katanga ==request at the Cbamber of Corn-1
says: yes" and appears deter-:merce office at A2B l / 2 S. Allen;
mined to stick to this affirma- F-: - .Street. I
tion -even if it is pulled after RI The list is revised about every;
the Congolese into -the history 7 - 4 ..,.;date, '
batiks
weeks to keep it up to
batiks as "countries that once = officials =said. .
were." sil Many of the recent requests for,
kcopies of the list have come in.
Secretary of State Dean Rusk
....2: by, mail and copies have been
saidaast Dec. 8: "We hope that •
—7,' sent to those persons, officials
the ;leaders of Katanga will .
recognize- that their present -,said- - •
si An additional service will be:
path leads nowhere!' Tshombe,
.'offered this fall by the Chamber. ;
14
on:the other hand, thinks that list of housing -available for;
if the U.N. is financially 14;
forced ; weekend guests in the community
to withdraw in December when swill be maintained, officials said.'
-Vidal funds run out, KatangaEl This will be particularly useful:
independence will be accepted
:Ito persons coming to State Col -I
id fact. Most Western observers,
.e.? f.,. for football games,. they said.i
how'fver, fell otherwise. "--
...1
!
- Aor other ns'
. The Congolese and Katan
g- =i
Eha L ving N rooms DLORDS
available fo p r erso suc h
ans , may have been more con- weekends should call the Cham-'
sistently off he front pages
since the MN. t 's December in- giber of Commerce office at AD 7-;
vation 'of Elisabethville ended 2 1 7644 to-have their name, the price
but 'all is not placid. That some- overnight ;
.. t . i of their room for guests,'
~: . -I t he location other ppropriate!
t lii n g brews is shown ;by
of *information and
.placed on a the week-I
leqgthy reports in two
a i encchousing list: ' I
America's foremost' news- The same number can be called'
papers, The New York Times' =r
and similar; information given tot
and, The Washington Post and
=r the secretary in the Chamber's
Times-Herald, last • weekend. r z ioffice for persons who have sin-
Tlw.. reporters would hardly .ex-
=isle or double rooms or apart
agkerate just to have something
E l ments for rent for the fall term,
to : Trite as enough 'world lills
I , r'-'they said
are; around to fill the columns 'lt" - "
: . 31.1- The Chamber of Commerce did
with print. Enot maintain a similar housing'
Etlist last year but • initiated the;
- 1 glproject.qat the end of the spring'
pne hardly knows what t to Elterm because numerous requests'
exOect from the fledgling poll"- I,L for housing inform'ation had been
ticians, parliamentarians who =received, officials said.
accUse the government mem- -31 Until the beginning of •last
hers of being thieves or who il,year,. the dean •of men's office
often have education. compar- E,maintained a similar service
able only to our junior. high 11, which listed local accommoda
leirel. One can only hope that Piltions.
the U.N. some of whose al •
members created the misunder- _;Grass Research Grant
.standings within the Congo ==; Th c. Pennsylvania Turf grass
wil) quickly educate • these = 'Council recently gave $2OO to the
'leaders that their irresponsible _. De partm ent of Botany and : Plant
Jpqwer jockeying could well E.palology to s)pport studies of
thr 4 nw the switch in a ,few short Eithe diseases of bluegrass.
months. • —t
I Eii This research is under the direc-
Education.NNw4ed
SUMMER . 000.thlAi4: UNIViRiITY PARK. i,iNt46l:NiAt4A
Clark to Speak in HUB Wednesday
Sen. Joseph S. Clark. D-Pa., congressional elections, the AP been tlanici: tor - birth Ole fcrmilies,
will speak at 8:30 p.m. Viednes-(said. Its use has been directed to pregq
Union
day in the Hetzel Union ballroom! Clark told capital newsmen: :pant women.
at the invitation of the Univer-, "There isn't a shadow of , a - IT IS HARD to believe that
. sity, which has extended a similar,doubt that an overwhelming num-
the Food and Drug Administration
invitation to all the candidates.ber of Chase people, the aged in
does not nOw have the power to
for major office in the-forthcoming , Pennsylvania, want to get health ..
require that a drug be thoroughly
,state elections. 'care and that an overwhelming tested befOne it is distributed
Rep. James E. Van Zandt, R-Pa..inumber 90 per cent of them around the , country for so-called
will speak Oct. 2. Van Zandt and favor it-sunder Social Security." clinical tests," Clark was quoted
Clark - are campaigning' for the Clark said he feels two other as saying
r by the AP.
latter's seat in the U.S. Senate.msijor issues are jobs for this
1 r
The seat of junior senator Hugh'state's vemployed and the ex-'.
Scott, a Republican, is not up for,peTience of the Democratic can- 1 ornate Research Grant
election this' fall. , dilates for all offices, the AP dis- The American Cyanamid Corn.
patch said. a- pan},. of Princeton. N.J., has der
,speakersDATES FOR OTHER political
Clark and Sen. Estes Kefauver, Hated s 2oo research. '
to support researt. in
are expected to be settled Clark
are prepaying legislation the Department of Horticulture.
soon. Each of the candidates has.
designed to prevent experimental; The money will aid nitrogen
selected a date to fit his own ,
'schedule..use on human- beings of untested • fertilization 'studies on leading
use
such as thalidomide, the tomato varieties. This research is
Clark expressed the opinion AP also reported. under the direction of E. 14, Berg
;yesterday that medical care for; Thalidomide is the tranquilizer man. assistant professor of plant
•the aged will be a major issue in developed in Europe which has nutrition.
;Pennsylvania's fall election cam-....--
..
Ipaign, the Associated Press re-I , f
ported. ... '
!Counseling Service Aids New Students
The Democratic candidate took'
!a directly oppos4e view to that The pre-registration counseling interests oli the -students plus the
expressed by his Republican op- service, whose display faces the weaknesses! In their preparation
ponent, Van Zandt, who said at a entrance to the Hetrel Union for college.' Students can also get
news conference in the capital ; Building was established approxi- information on- their outstanding
Tuesday' that President Kennedyimatebr 16 years ago to aid in-'talents in different fields of edU-f
:had made the question of financ-,coming students. `cation. I
.ing medical care- for , persons 651 This year's program, under the' Varied personal difficulties are
years of age or over under the direction of Donald H. Ford. heaenmng other topics discussed by
Social Security, system too "taint- . o f the Division cif Counseling, the students and his counselor at
ed l for it to be an issue. 'started May 28 and will continuethese pre-registration sessions.
PRESIDENT, following through September 14. Counselors also meet with par-
THE ents of the students to discuss
.defeat of his medical'care plan i n The purposes of the program are what college life •will be like for
mid -July, has 'planned to try to, daughter .
to find the areas of studies and their son or
make it a major issue in . the fall-,
;
mon of James R. Bloom, associate
tprofeT t sor of plant pathology. '
UNDERGROUND SENTINEL OF FREEDOM
This Titan missile. rises from its silo in just a
few precious minutes. Soon six Titan squadr!ons
will stand ready to protect our freedom.• Your
taxes are needed to pay for defense measures
jike this. Yet some people urge the federal
government to spend your tax dollars for more
federal electric power plants and lines. This
Is needless. Along with the 'nation's more
than 300 other investor-ownedi 2lectric • light
and power companies, we can provide all ,
the electricity 'our growing nati4 will need.
This is no time for needless tax spending:
WEST PENN POWER
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