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With Tshombe's Katanga now largely under U.N. control, Central Government Premier Cyrille Adoula began flexing his muscles in Leopoldville. He demanded that the British and Belgian consuls in Elisabethville leave the country because they had acted as mediators for Tshombe in hopes of arranging a ceasefire. He spurned a $2,000,000 gift from the British government because of its "subversive policy" on Katanga, and one of his officials sniffed: "We are not a little child who can be given a lump of sugar to keep quiet...
...Plan. What alarms the U.N. most is the shaky position of the head of the central government in Leopoldville, Premier Cyrille Adoula, who has taken to sleeping in a paratroop compound in fear for his life. "He is hanging on by an eyelash," said a diplomat. The tumultuous Parliament is openly rebellious. One portly Deputy named Emile Zola drew cheers by reciting a long list of grievances against Adoula, punctuating each with "J'accuse...
...Congo. Fortnight ago, Thant decided to stir up some action. Off to Britain, Belgium, Portugal and South Africa went letters urging a boycott on the copper and cobalt that earn some $200 million in foreign exchange for Katanga's giant Union Miniere each year. Most merely shrugged. Then, Adoula wrote to 17 nations urging them to stop buying Tshombe's exports. Many of them would shrug...
This seemed true enough until King Al bert I slipped out of his jail last month and fled back to his little Kasai capital of Bakwanga. At last Adoula decided to act. ordered a group of army officers to fly off to Bakwanga and take over. It was easy, for a restive and well-bribed faction of Kalonji's own troops quickly joined the invaders. King Albert once again made his getaway; according to rumor, he took three cases of diamonds with him. At week's end the fleeing monarch turned up in Katanga, presumably getting sympathy from...
Kalonji's escape was hard to swallow, but the central government had made its point with the people who count-the Belgian diamond operators. Hurriedly, their chief flew to Leopoldville from Brussels, agreed henceforth to hand over the diamond operation's lavish cash benefits to Adoula's treasury...