Economic Crisis Faces Congo Amid Daily Life Struggles
In Kinshasa the Congo endures rising prices and lagging wages after a 1967 monetary reform as families subsist on manioc while a growing urban middle class emerges. Mobutu rules a single party. rebels drift abroad, and interior regions rebuild after rebellions as missionaries and foreign aid reshape education, health, and commerce.
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Congo
Kinshasa
Loganium University
National Conservatory
Stamps in the News: Rooster stamp for 1969 and more
AP News feature notes Taiwan’s Republic of China will issue New Year’s Greetings stamps in $1 and $4.50 denominations depicting the year of the Rooster tracing back to Han dynasty. Also covered are a postponement of the Beautification of America stamps by the U S Post Office and a Mauritius rare stamp on cover selling for $390000 at auction.
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Ether
Pierre Mulele
Cairo
Moscow
Kampala
Madrid
Antoine Gizenga
Mali
Mulele
Gizenga
Pic‘ature
Moise Tshombe
Migeria
Joseph D. Mobutu
Tshombe
Mobutu
Lional Lopic
Syd Kronish
Republic of China
World Wide Philatelic Agency
Taiwan
Johnson
Raymond
Roger Weill
New Orleans
Mauritius
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Mort Rosenblum
Associated Press Press
The
Madagascar
Information Ministry
Vachel Lindsay
National Bank
Albert Ndole
Europe
Felix Malu
Black Africa
Che Guevara
Paris
U.S
Laurel and Hardy
United States
Missippi
Pare Albert
Lumumbashi
Elisabethville
Bukavu
Kivu
Alaska
Kisangani
Stanleyville
Cong
Israel
Belgium
Italy
Airport
Rhodes
McKinney Ha
Armstrong
Ariftstone
Excelon
Our
Carton
Kmart
Ee Ean Smeemart
P.M. Mon Tues
5. 5, Krasge Company
Canada
Puerto Rico
Pie Alee Tee
Armstrong Excelon
Swinlchip
N. Pruett
Baytown
General Motors
U.S. Post Office Department
Pruett
BAY Plaza Center
Ona
Mada
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