Isobel said thoughtfully, "There's been some hope that fundamental
changes might take place in Lisbon."
Jake grunted his skepticism. "In that case the bloodbath would take
place there instead of in Africa." He added, "Which is all right with
me."
"What else?" Isobel said.
"Continued complications in the Congo."
"That's hardly news."
"But things are going like clockwork in the west. Kenya, Uganda,
Tanganyika." Cliff took his right hand away from the controls long
enough to make a circle with its thumb and index finger. "Like
clockwork. Fifty new fellows from the University of Chicago came in last
week to help with the rural education development and twenty or so men
from Johns Hopkins in Baltimore have wrangled a special grant for a new
medical school."
"All ... Negroes?"
"What else?"