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Oral History Interview with Max Schlotter, July 21, 2014
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Transcript of an interview with Max Schlotter, WWII and Korean War Navy veteran. Schlotter shares concerning his childhood in the Congo and Texas; family history; living on the Alabama-Coushatta reservation near Livingston, Texas; enlistment in the Navy; assignment on USS Thurston; attending the V-12 program; assignment on the USS Long Island in the Pacific Theater; post-war college and teaching; recall by Navy during the Korean War; assignment to USS Adirondack and Naples, Italy; and post-war life. Appendix includes photos, a map of the Okinawa Invasion, and biographical notes.
Date:
July 21, 2014
Creator:
Millier, Callie & Schlotter, Max, 1924-
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Plate-I Belgian Congo Geography
Historic map of Belgian Congo and surrounding areas showing geographical features. Scale 1:5,000,000
Date:
July 1959
Creator:
Judd, Edward K.
Object Type:
Map
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Possibilities for Additional Uranium in Belgian Congo
Discussing the potential for Belgian Congo to be used as a uranium source.
Date:
July 1959
Creator:
Judd, Edward K.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Oral History Interview with Tanya Kiboko, October 11, 2011
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Interview with Tanya Kiboko, an immigrant to Texas from the Democratic Republic of the Congo. Kiboko discusses her education, her family, Congolese society, languages, learning English, culture shock, food, markets, attending Wiley College, her husband, differences in structure between Western and Congolese families, and reflections on life.
Date:
October 21, 2011
Creator:
Clower, John & Kiboko, Tanya
Object Type:
Book
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Church]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, relating a news story about "Operation Water Hole" in Zaire.
Date:
September 10, 1972, 10:00 p.m.
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ebola: Democratic Republic of Congo
This report discusses an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 8, 2018. As of June 10, 2018, WHO reported a total of 55 cases, including 28 deaths.
Date:
July 25, 2018
Creator:
Salaam-Blyther, Tiaji & Chavers, Monyai L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Ebola: Democratic Republic of Congo
This report discusses an Ebola outbreak in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), first reported to the World Health Organization (WHO) on May 8, 2018. As of June 10, 2018, WHO reported a total of 55 cases, including 28 deaths.
Date:
June 12, 2018
Creator:
Salaam-Blyther, Tiaji & Chavers, Monyai L.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[News Script: Congo]
Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas relating a news story.
Date:
July 8, 1967
Creator:
WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
Object Type:
Script
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Democratic Republic of Congo: Targeted Sanctions
This report discusses human rights and humanitarian hardship in war-ravaged eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
Date:
December 8, 2016
Creator:
Arieff, Alexis
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pygmy dance
Photograph of Pygmy people dancing in the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Date:
1968
Creator:
Zichner, Mildred Schaeffer
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pygmies - pipe
Photograph of the Pygmy people with a pipe in the Ituri Forest in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Date:
1968
Creator:
Zichner, Mildred Schaeffer
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Rwenzori Mountains
Photograph of the Rwenzori Mountains, which are located on the border of Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Date:
1968
Creator:
Zichner, Mildred Schaeffer
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Pygmies
Photograph of the Pygmy people in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Date:
1968
Creator:
Zichner, Mildred Schaeffer
Object Type:
Photograph
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The UNT Digital Library
The Lord's Resistance Army: The U.S. Response
This report discusses the background and history of the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) and the U.S.'s response. The LRA is a small armed group that originated in northern Uganda in 1987 and is currently operating in remote border areas between the Central African Republic (CAR), Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), South Sudan, and Sudan. The LRA's actions--which include massacres, abductions (notoriously of children), sexual assault, and looting--have caused humanitarian suffering and instability.
Date:
September 28, 2015
Creator:
Arieff, Alexis; Ploch Blanchard, Lauren & Husted, Tomas F.
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
[Photograph 2012.201.B1017.0591]
Photograph used for a newspaper owned by the Oklahoma Publishing Company. Caption: "John L. Peters, center, with Stan Reynolds, right, (now World Neighbors Director for Africa) in Zaire, June, 1973, listening to village leaders at a World Neighbors assisted agricultural project."
Date:
November 21, 1985
Creator:
unknown
Object Type:
Photograph
System:
The Gateway to Oklahoma History
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments
This report discusses in brief the current political state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the crisis situation in eastern Congo that has displaced more than 250,000 civilians. It also describes U.S., U.N., and other international efforts to aid in resolving the crisis.
Date:
October 15, 2009
Creator:
Dagne, Ted
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments
This report discusses in brief the current political state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the crisis situation in eastern Congo that has displaced more than 250,000 civilians. It also describes U.S., U.N., and other international efforts to aid in resolving the crisis.
Date:
June 4, 2010
Creator:
Dagne, Ted
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments
This report discusses in brief the current political state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the crisis situation in eastern Congo that has displaced more than 250,000 civilians. It also describes U.S., U.N., and other international efforts to aid in resolving the crisis.
Date:
July 23, 2010
Creator:
Dagne, Ted
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments
This report discusses in brief the current political state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the crisis situation in eastern Congo that has displaced more than 250,000 civilians. It also describes U.S., U.N., and other international efforts to aid in resolving the crisis.
Date:
December 7, 2010
Creator:
Dagne, Ted
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
The Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and Current Developments
This report discusses in brief the current political state of the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as well as the crisis situation in eastern Congo that has displaced more than 250,000 civilians. It also describes U.S., U.N., and other international efforts to aid in resolving the crisis.
Date:
February 4, 2010
Creator:
Dagne, Ted
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
International Peacekeeping Operations: Sinai, Congo, Cyprus, Lebanon, and Chad Lessons for the UN and OAU
Peacekeeping is a means by which international or regional organizations control conflict situations that are likely to endanger international peace and security. Most scholars have viewed the contributions of peacekeeping forces only in terms of failures, and they have not investigated fully the political-military circumstances" under which conflict control measures succeed. This dissertation is an attempt to bridge this gap and to show how the OAU compares with the UN in carrying out peacekeeping missions. The method of research was the case study method in which primary and secondary data was used to describe the situations in which six peacekeeping forces operated. The content of resolutions, official reports and secondary data were examined for non-trivial evidences of impediments to implementation of mandates. Findings from the research indicate that peacekeeping missions not properly backed by political efforts at settlement of disputes, cooperation of the superpowers, and financial and logistic support were ineffective and usually unsuccessful. Lack of consensus and pursuit of national interests have resulted in ambiguous or unrealistic mandates and have reduced the effectiveness of peacekeeping operations. Moreover, parties to a conflict were interested only in solutions that favored their interests and were often skeptical about the role and credibility …
Date:
December 1989
Creator:
Demsa, Paul Meslam, 1949-
Object Type:
Thesis or Dissertation
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and U.S. Policy
This report reviews the status of the Democratic Republic of the Congo peace process, provides background on recent conflicts in the Congo, briefly summarizes the political history that led to these conflicts, and assesses prospects for the future. It also describes relevant U.S. policy and congressional involvement.
Date:
February 24, 2014
Creator:
Arieff, Alexis
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Democratic Republic of Congo: Background and U.S. Policy
The purpose of this report is to review the status of the Democratic Republic of the Congo peace process, provide background on recent conflicts in the Congo; briefly summarize the political history that led to these conflicts; and assess prospects for the future. U.S. Congo policy and congressional involvement are also described.
Date:
July 29, 2013
Creator:
Arieff, Alexis & Coen, Thomas
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library
Conflict Minerals in Central Africa: U.S. and International Responses
This report discusses how Congress has focused on ways to help end or mitigate the effects of conflicts and human rights abuses in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC), including several hearingw which have become law. The main issue is related to "conflict minerals," the so-called “3TGs”: ores of tantalum and niobium, tin, tungsten, and gold, and their derivatives.
Date:
July 20, 2012
Creator:
Cook, Nicolas
Object Type:
Report
System:
The UNT Digital Library