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...cold-blooded killing pointed up the grim fact that nearly three months after United Nations troops crushed Secessionist Moise Tshombe's regime and placed the province under Premier Cyrille Adoula's central government, peace is far from restored in Katanga. Each guard post that the U.N. hands over to the central regime's Armée Nationale Congolaise seems to produce a little area of anarchy. In recent weeks, trigger-happy A.N.C. soldiers in Elisabethville have killed at least one Katangese civilian...
This is just one of the many problems of Leopoldville's Premier Adoula. Lacking funds and trained personnel, he has virtually no control over his sprawling nation of 17 million largely illiterate people. The Congo's administrative structure has been ripped apart by two years of civil war, and the chief aim of the national Parliament sometimes seems to be destruction of any central authority...
...words of the mercurial Moise had a familiar ring, and there were skeptics who suggested the pledge was false. "I'll believe it when I see it," said one diplomat in Elisabethville. "We know the man," shrugged Central Government Premier Cyrille Adoula in Leopoldville. "It is not the first time that Tshombe has declared himself ready to renounce his ambitions to found an independent state...
...doors, sacked the offices, and tried to pry off a coat of arms because, as one student cried, "It's made of Katanga copper!" After an hour, the U.N.'s Congo Chief Robert Gardiner arrived and scattered the mob. All the while, a jeep-load of Adoula's cops sat chuckling near by, making no move to stop the pillage...
...Score. Exuberant as Adoula was over Tshombe's plight, there was not much for him to crow about. Even if Katanga is successfully reintegrated, he will still face the equally formidable problems of administrative incompetence, official corruption, army indiscipline and-worst of all-rivalries among the Congo's 200 tribes. The point was underlined in blood last week in Kasai province, where feuding tribesmen were at one another's throats over a border dispute. Natives kidnaped and reportedly ate two Belgian lumbermen, then began slaughtering one another in the town of Kakenge. Such gruesome incidents no longer...