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Even after the Leopoldville regime arrested Kalonji last January for his secessionist activities, Mining State went right ahead as an independent nation, issuing its own postage stamps and flying its own flag, convinced that Premier Cyrille Adoula's central regime lacked the resolve to crush Kasai's lucrative rebellion...
...cynical effort to gain a propaganda advantage." In any case, the U.N. was the loser. U Thant's plan would have forced Katanga to integrate its 12,000 soldiers with Congo forces and, still more important, to turn over half its rich mining revenues to Premier Cyrille Adoula's central government. Without Katanga, Adoula's regime faces the prospect of a restive army and ultimate bankruptcy...
Political parties: 9. Voters: 40%. Black Africa's most headlined country has almost total ignorance of Western- style government. Only minute proportion of people even aware Congo is nation. Political parties are inexperienced and on strictly tribal lines. Westward-leaning Cyrille Adoula is ablest Premier yet, but still insecure in nearly bankrupt country...
Shocked and bitter. Central Government Premier Adoula gestured toward the broad Congo waters outside his window as he told newsmen: "Gentlemen, six weeks of patient negotiations have just gone down the river...
...Moise breaks off negotiations entirely. In Manhattan the U.N.'s Acting Secretary-General U Thant declared that his Congo commanders "have been told to be very much on the alert." The U.N. may or may not be able to accomplish it, but sooner or later, the preposterous, protracted Adoula-Tshombe deadlock will have to be broken. The inert Congo giant cannot be allowed to lie there indefinitely...