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I whakaingoatia a Congo Crisis ki roto i te tuhinga a Ranald MacDougall. I whakawakia e nga kaiwhakawhiwhi te kiriata i tana tukunga tuatahi mo ona whakaaturanga whakairoiro o te tutu me te tukino.