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THE CHINA - MAIL, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1980.

A NEW DESPATCH FROM THE MAN WHO FIRST BROUGHT

KATANGA

INTO EVERYDAY LANGUAGE

WAB KNOWN TO FEW PEOPLE. TODAY IT, HAS EXPLOSIVE MEANING. THE MAN WHO FIRST ANTICIPATED ITS BIGNIFICANCE WAS RENE MACCOLL, WHOSE REPORT. REVEALING KATANGA'S INTERNATIONAL CONBEQUENCES. WISHES TO BREAK FROM THE CONGO HAD

ONLY MONTHS AGO THE NAME KATANGA

NOW MACCOLL MOVES TO ANOTHER CRITICAL POINT IN THE UPHEAVALS OF AFRICA: NIGERIA,

Lagos.

THE atmosphere is a little like the final breaking-up day at school.

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• OBAFEMI AWOLOWO,

Krave - writer for a policy I ne with

The pupils, with their jet-black, laughing faces; lender of the Western region, an su full of anticipated happiness, so eager to be off English-educated on their own, are sure that they have done well in mannered intellectuni, their exants. Are sure that they can from now on Britain's. Make out splendidly without the masters.

mood is one of exuberance

and a de-itr World.

to show the

And although the axi-driveř

here

At the cold "h"

Lag may shill talk about "the Massa" in the thic person. ("Show the Masse", where his

r"), thers ove that things are differeal.

Friendly

That Alnicon Customs

notice

femi

In Kano, 102 exumple. Who

asked the Australian business man who liud brea

1-

crall what his profession was, mers is being told "Company director," repsied with deliberate insolence:

big shot, huh?" That sort

infident would never have happeried, a

year ago.

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And the bank clera whic

sured a Europe

"Just

UN

Wall

·wifil Celeber f., then you -

perialists will have

to get on!

and will learn a lesson,"

These are

tlus, In

probably

mortiz

Excep". semina

Lagos, with all the frenzy of new budding which is in pra- ETS, the turmidable truflic Jans and the general

air

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excilement, the Nigerians are friendly and as welcoming as ever they were.

So rich

And there are no signs at all of the worl of unhappy exodus of Europeans which marked the Congo's independence.

The

next

on

the list

by

the

These three represent parts of the big tropical country, north, ust, and west, which are inclined to be hostile 10 attd suspicious of one another.

They are divided on ethule and on religious grounds, and rach part prefers. its own mau! But, faced with the challenge of independence--and, above all the necessity of doing better thum such already, iridependett black-faced Joneses" 15 Ghona's Nkrumah. Guinea's Sekou-Tourn, and the Congo's Lumumba, it is pretty certain that Nigeria will pull together In order to avoid hanging separately,

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Win power be transferred smoothly from Britain

this newest and biggest of the black African nations? There is every Teason why it should be.

Britain's record in Nigeria is 1 mode! of enlightened colonlulism. British administra- tors, Legislators, school teachers, missionaries. medical officers, and economic advisers butt done a superb job.

Most Important of all Britain has been working towards Sovereignty for this big country for many years past, 'The Nigerians have been patiently

Rene MacColl and thoroughly trained to take.

over the responsibility (whare the Congolese were not). Her other natural wealth in- No question here eludes palm oil, palm kernels, widered and

"epiton, cupra, hides, tin suddenly dung

of

"

THE ROME OLYMPIC

pic

Corruption cama asily to the Olympics. In un early chariot race the pins of the wheel on the

This

favourite's chariot were replaced with wax. matred in the heat, the wheels came off and the drivar way trampled to death.

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Also in the 1908 Gamat, the United States jug-al wat team complained that the English side (all policeman had taken unfair advantage by wearing outs)se boot.

London, in 1908, saw the galian) failure of the Italian Matarkon runner Dorando Piatri, who staggered through the tapu to finish first, only "to be disqualified for receiving auitenes from

officists.

The original ideal at sport for it own sake, had an extremely short- libe. Officially, winners at the Ancient Olympics received andy a weath of olive leaves.... But winning perka alten Includ manry, exemption frém Taxation and tres food for Ufe.

In the formid kest of the 10,000 metres cou country sack, le the 1924 Par Olympics, an FURNEY WAS blinded fatigue that hi can full tilt into ⚫ brich wal

by

Halen Stephens, who won tile women's 100 metras La Cha 1936 Olympics. developed her speed by chasing rebbits on

Missouri form.

THE HUMAN FROG

WHO was the greatest Olympic athlete of them all? Owens? Nurmi? Zatopek? Or perhaps Blankers-Koen?

be- The answer is none of these-not if greatness panicky people

up against the is measured by success alone. By sheer weight of gold medals top-billing goes to an almost forgotten athlete, R. C. Ewry of the United States.

and coal. There is an abund. facts of international life is in

Some British feials in ndance of ministrative pads who will

redukiant

timber. And Nigeria the Congo.

be produces over 85 per cent of a have taken the metal called columbile, which it

essential in many manufactur ing processes.

"golden handshake" and a pen

sion and are leaving.

Who are the men who will be Bul in the British sĖLIESS community that is to die. fuming Nigeria? They are

cernible Tencioney. to pull stakes.

Sympathy

of

By

JOHN COTTRELL

He was oVET

win

That vital inch was

enough

to make Ewry the most success ful Olympian of all time. He had won ten gold medals,

The Human Ting... retired from athletics soon after return to the United Stabel, And long before his death at the age of 62, in 1937, h achievements had been forgot=" ton by all except a few Olymple historians.

is.

an

Now she took charge of her 30 and growing From standing position jumps and earned his stath gold tired of travelling thousands of husband's training programme, personally supervising it in the miles to collect gold medals. Ewry could jump further and medal.

this Perhaps

borne In the landing long jump he shhlete British colonisers have never

higher than any other

But his wife insisted that he backyard of their Long Island

She had absolute faith standing Jumps disappeared. settled

of his time. in eight years he renched the amazing mark permauently

went on. So lntensely interested home. hure in

ability to his from championship athletics up ● HER PRIME MINISTER. There are not the won the record number of ten 11 fi, 4.87 In.

London Olympics.

Perhaps because he had the ad- They called him the Human bei every four years. But in came known as the "mother of tenth gold medal in the 1908 fow you after his retirement Alhaji Sir Abubakar Talawe agonising and seemingly individual Olympic gold medals. Normally the Olymples are was the in athletics that she be in Bwry's

vantage 1906 the custom was broken for the American Olympic team.

Dr. competing in On the contrary, there is great Balewa. He is a satin-voiced, insoluble racial problems which

exists in the Union

the first and only time. An extra of SouthFrog.

When athletes fell on the optanie about the future, and melancholy-eyed -

This time, Ray Ewry needed extra Olympiad.

train seriously, He

But, even without counting record His

alone Olympiad was held in Athens, & belt that Nigeria will ofter dressed all in snowy white, from Africa. There are about 20,000

Olympic

rough sea voyage to Athens In to Europeans in Nigeria now.

It gave Ewry the chance aveat majority from the United astounding is that

makes a remarkable story. More

for most of collect iwn more gold medals f 19 it was Mrs Ewry who or nearly 34 and, for the first time, his triumphs in 1900, Rey Ewry Women's Emer- about to face a dangerous rival has still won more gold medals long and high gnised the on the standing

the 19-year-old, 0 ft. 3 in.

athlete in Corps

than any former Kingdom..

to handle his childhood. Ewry was

Jumps. If the standing hop, step geney

Tslelitarns of Greees.

Olymple history: invalid.

and jump had been retained in catering and coolding,

Another me she led the pro the programme he would certain- ly have achieved the hat-trick of tests when customs officers con hat-tricks.

man.of 48.

wonderful opportunities for the Moslem · north. United Kinglóni enterprise,

• DR NNAMDI AZIKIWE The ("Zeek"), By 1970 Nigeria will be

55-year-old second Commonwealth country leader Eastern

ht Nigeria.

Tip-

The

But there is no problem to be are present president of the Nigerian foreseen from their presence. -and her present rulers determined to remain within the Senate. A fiery speaker, Commonwealth-after Conáda in ped to be Governor-General

Nigeria ull production. New oil deposits the new have been proved recently.

October 1.

soon

He was so physically retarded that doctors wild he would be an invalid for it-t he lived

Do I then have no reserva- offlons about the power transfer- after ence on October 1? Yes, I have at all.

them, although they are minor

'CLIP JOINT'

BATTLE IS

BEING WON

London.

ONDON police believe their campaign to stamp Lo

out the back street Soho "clip joints" is meeting with some success.

These ont-room basement that many of the visitors who clubs sprang up after the new partod with wah went into the vice laws

"elip Joints seeking prosiltules They sorve son drinks at They were given the impreS-

elon they were handing over high prices.

Several have closed down in money for what, before the recent weeks following police new vice laws, they wеrе rosecutions against girls and openly offered at street corners. their employers for conspiracy But some visitors have been to steal money by means D'under the impression they trick.

were paying money which the girl, when she could leave the Visitors complain club, would use to pay for ad

mission to other clubs generally to provide the "good ilme" promised In West Endl.

There are silii about 20 or so clubs on which the pollee nightly keep obarvation.

The prosecutions followed af increasing flow of complaints from visitors who parted with money to girls in the clubs.

A senior police officer sald

THE

Just

London's

ones..

Sir Abubakar, the Prime Minister, whom 1 talked with in his air-conditioned office in the Parliament building here, seem- ed pretty happy.

"We may get a bit excited at times," he told me. "But tend to eculm down just 5

We

Jumping

Hoping that it might help build up the boy's strength and physique, the family doctor made out a schedule at daily exercises. One of thean woe- Jumping,

quickly. I'm not at all surprised sible, as far as

Ewry jumped as-high as pos- possible, each that the people in Britai and the other European

day seeking to break his pre- countries

record He did should have been worried about vlous personal

that within a few |what may happen here, and not realise

may fear that we could fellow months he was achieving results

the example of the Congo. But all I ask is their sympathy,

~Consolidation

that for his nge, were quite rom markable,

Meanwhile, the exercises were paying off physically. He went on jumping dally until as a young man he had developed above-average build, standing ft. 1 In. and weighing 11 st. 8

"We do not believe that we are being granted independence because we are better than our 1b, eratwhite colonial masters---but simply because we huvi reached the point where we desire to run our own affairs.”

"On October: 1 ww won't

Fwry did not realise hin great athletic prowers until he left hin New York home for No other University. Purtile student there could approach hin magically become a better Gov-performances on the athletlen ornment than that of

Britain, fald. but we ufuil be running our ows, show, Dow better or for

worso.

i

Amazing

news

of

The

"There may be some exelte- ment. But given sympathy and

understanding, things will settie once he had engaged in open down. Our relations with the competition, United Kingdom Just could not American's phenomenal ability be betler than they are, and wo spread rapidly. And in 1900 the want it to. continue that way..25-year-old

ex-Invalid. (was

"These duba were singing The British haul-over is being selected to represent his country up one after the other-now | conducted smoothly and in the in the second Olympics in Paris.

they are closing down one after the other," said the police,

-(London Express. Beroics).

Fancy

best possible spirit.“

Ferry entered three events. So let us hope that Nigeria and won them all, to become medallist will concentrato not on crazy the first triple gold nationallan, lin-pot, second-rate at one Olympiad. dictatorship, anarchy and chaos, abre-rattling and at the rest had to endure from her black neighbours

of it, such as we

Have of late

When the Human Frog was jumping, other competitors were fighting for second place. He

comfortably won ench event. the standing high Jump with 5

Except for a

Ruence the Ray story would have yould.

But will instead set about con- ft. 6 in.; the standing long jump solchertinet what can be a One with 10 E1, 0.4 ; the starling [HE brøken-off neck of a wine bottle that was struck cuture of

economie expansion: hop, step and Jump with 84-fi. by a 35ft. pleasure launch punched a hole in the of a heightened standard of 8.6 in, bottom of the boat. Water poured in; and to stop the living for her bungooning, popu

It was "thó - omroe" in: 190l: at launch sinking, the skipper ran it aground in St Petersbly, bruned membership within the third Olymotes: In 61 Loulo Port harbour, Guernsey, the other day.

the Brits Commonwealth. G| Miasouri: WITH

(Londen. Eisgrant-Méretos), • Yabic woOIS all the arckagi

(Landon Haprões #dreion).

lations and'a strona and Justin-

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In the standing long jump. the Greek reached 10 t, 7.25 in. Ewry, pipped him with 10 It." woman's in- fiscated the team's cargo of suft 11.25 in. In the standing high under the mistaken jump Tslelltaras reached 5 tt. 1 Ewry success drink

in, Ewry cleared 6 ft. 2 in. ended there. impression that it was gin,

JUNGLE B'HOY-BY JAK

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