Word: adoula
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...Millions of dollars (largely American) and a goodly share of the U.N.'s prestige is at stake in making the Congo regime work. Premier Cyrille Adoula tries hard, but thieves roam the streets, and some get jobs as ambassadors. See THE WORLD...
Trumpets blared and drums rattled as the proud procession moved down Leopoldville's broad Boulevard Albert I to celebrate the Congo's second anniversary of independence. President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Cyrille Adoula took the salute from the black soldiers of the new Garde Républicaine, who were decked out in powder-blue uniforms with black lace trimming and red feathered hats. Along the route, 20,000 Congolese added their cheers to the festive occasion...
...Tshombe-Adoula conflict problem," Halberstam summed can't take step one in the until the army is disarmed...
...first swing into the Western Hemisphere since he became Premier of the Congo, Cyrille Adoula, 38, delighted a White House luncheon party by toasting the U.S. for "having scored a bull's eye" with its Congo policy, scored a bull's eye himself by his tactful management of a potentially explosive meeting with Belgian Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, who came away proclaiming his "pleasure" over the encounter. Similarly impressed by the touring chief of government: New York's Francis Cardinal Spellman, who presented the Catholic-educated Adoula with a pair of cuff links bearing the Cardinal...
This would dispose of the problem of Gizenga, but Adoula still faced the urgent need of finding a substitute who could bring troublesome Eastern Province under control. First task was to round up and disarm the savages in uniform...