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Congo Emerges Peaceful After Turbulent Dawn Yet Faces Growth
The Congo markets show copper output rising after a chaotic independence era. Mobutu seizes and consolidates power, stabilizing currency and mining ownership as 78,000 whites return and new upper class enjoys luxuries. By year’s end Mobutu plans Washington visit as Congo eyes 700,000 tons annual copper by 1980.
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Congo
Leopoldville
Kinshasa
Union Miniere
Joseph Desiree Mobutu
Mobutu
Washington
Joseph Kasavubu
Lumumba
Kasavubu