more prolegomena to V.: 1961, as TRP was finishing

[Mark Kohut]

    * January 7 – Following a 4-day conference in Casablanca, 5 African chiefs of state announce plans for a NATO-type African organization to ensure common defense. The Charter of Casablanca involves the Casablanca Group: Morocco, the United Arab Republic, Ghana, Guinea, and Mali. 
 
Trial of Adolf Eichmann begins.
 
Patrice Lumumba of Republic of Congo assassinated....later in the year JFK urges Soviet Union, all nations (I guess) not to interfere
w the UN-led "pacification" of the Congo. 
 
The Soviet Union detonates largest h-bomb, testing.  

	* B-52 Stratofortress, with two nuclear bombs, crashes near Goldsboro, North Carolina. 
	* US starts Minuteman rocket testing
	* Ham the chimp goes up in first rocket
 
US freedom marchers for civil rights begin...attacked, beaten, some killed.
 
Catch-22 is published, although sections had been appearing since 1955. Heller has same agent as TRP. 
 
And, more much more.