MORE emotional overtones were attached to the word “mercenaries” than to almost any other factor in the Katanga war. To the newly independent Afro-Asian nations (and to many U.S. liberals ...

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In 1961, everybody knew Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong. He was the “ambassador of jazz”, touring the world playing his hot jazz music for eager new audiences. The shows brought him to as far as Russia and ...