Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural estimating and reporting
Languages : en
Pages : 76
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Commodity Futures Statistics, July 1960-June 1961
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Agricultural estimating and reporting
Languages : en
Pages : 76
Book Description
Commodity Futures Statistics
Author: The Lumumba Plot
Author: Stuart A. ReidPublisher: Vintage
ISBN: 152474882X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 657
Book Description
The New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice • A spellbinding work of history that reads like a Cold War spy thriller—about the U.S.-sanctioned plot to assassinate the democratically elected leader of the newly independent Congo A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR: The New Yorker, The Economist, Financial Times “This is one of the best books I have read in years . . . gripping, full of colorful characters, and strange plot twists.” —Fareed Zakaria, CNN host It was supposed to be a moment of great optimism, a cause for jubilation. The Congo was at last being set free from Belgium—one of seventeen countries to gain independence in 1960 from ruling European powers. At the helm as prime minister was charismatic nationalist Patrice Lumumba. Just days after the handover, however, the Congo’s new army mutinied, Belgian forces intervened, and Lumumba turned to the United Nations for help in saving his newborn nation from what the press was already calling “the Congo crisis.” Dag Hammarskjöld, the tidy Swede serving as UN secretary-general, quickly arranged the organization’s biggest peacekeeping mission in history. But chaos was still spreading. Frustrated with the fecklessness of the UN and spurned by the United States, Lumumba then approached the Soviets for help—an appeal that set off alarm bells at the CIA. To forestall the spread of Communism in Africa, the CIA sent word to its station chief in the Congo, Larry Devlin: Lumumba had to go. Within a year, everything would unravel. The CIA plot to murder Lumumba would fizzle out, but he would be deposed in a CIA-backed coup, transferred to enemy territory in a CIA-approved operation, and shot dead by Congolese assassins. Hammarskjöld, too, would die, in a mysterious plane crash en route to negotiate a cease-fire with the Congo’s rebellious southeast. And a young, ambitious military officer named Joseph Mobutu, who had once sworn fealty to Lumumba, would seize power with U.S. help and misrule the country for more than three decades. For the Congolese people, the events of 1960–61 represented the opening chapter of a long horror story. For the U.S. government, however, they provided a playbook for future interventions.
Passenger Train Service: July 31, August 1, 2, 3, and 25, 1967
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Commerce. Subcommittee on Surface TransportationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Railroads
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
Pt. 1: Committee Serial No. 90-17. Considers S. 1175 and related bills, to change administrative procedure and requirements for discontinuance of passenger train service, allowing longer periods of investigative time, reassignment of burden of non-profitability proof to carriers, and making alternative transportation arrangement provisions rather than service continuance/discontinuance decisions.
Geological Survey Water-supply Paper
Author: Ground-water Levels in the United States
Author: Geological Survey (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Groundwater
Languages : en
Pages : 232
Book Description
Bibliography of Agriculture
Author: Government Patent Policies in Meteorology and Weather Modification - 1962, Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Monopoly of ... 87-2 on ... March 26, 27, and 28, 1962
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Select Committee on Small BusinessPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 262
Book Description
Economic Indicators
Author: Council of Economic Advisers (U.S.)Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic indicators
Languages : en
Pages : 40
Book Description
Climatological Data, Arizona
Author: United States. Environmental Data ServicePublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 720
Book Description