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...brusque orders still went out-to his troops, to his police, to his aides in the African Solidarity Party. But now many of Gizenga's decrees were being ignored. His army chief, General Victor Lundula, had declared his loyalty to the central government regime of Premier Cyrille Adoula in Leopoldville; when Gizenga angrily sent a platoon of Stanleyville police out to arrest Lundula, the cops began bickering among themselves, broke up and returned to their barracks without making the pinch...
Congo. The tenacity of able U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion in Leopoldville helped bring Katanga's stubborn Moise Tshombe and Central Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula together in a pact at Kitona (TIME, Dec. 29). Now the problem was to enforce the pact, and to bring Tshombe's secessionist province back into a unified Congo. Last week, as promised, Tshombe sent Katanga delegates to Leopoldville to sit with Adoula's commission in drafting revisions for the Congolese constitution. Other omens were less favorable. In Elisabethville, Tshombe rose before his provincial assembly to hedge his promises, still holding...
...Tshombe's Katanga Deputies to the central Congolese Parliament. Landing in a United Nations plane and guaranteed U.N. protection during their stay, they arrived ostensibly in fulfillment of Tshombe's pledge made fortnight ago in his meeting at Kitona with the central government's Premier Cyrille Adoula. The pledge: to integrate secessionist Katanga province with the rest of the Congo. But it was clear from the moment the delegates left Elisabethville's airport that they were not ready to keep Tshombe's promise. As the Deputies departed, a spokesman said: "We are going to Leopoldville...
Inside Pressure. The Loi Fondamentale is the provisional constitution left behind by the Belgians when they pulled out of the Congo in June 1960. Because the draft looked toward a federal Congo with a strong central government, Tshombe was against it from the start; at his meeting with Adoula, he reluctantly agreed to accept its provisions, but now (on the ground that his own provincial Parliament in Katanga had still to ratify his agreement) he insisted that the delegates would try again to get the provisional constitution changed. Said he: "We still insist on a confederation...
...insisted that the Katangese at least make a stab at settling their differences with Adoula. The threatened alternative: a new military crackdown by the U.N.'s Swedish, Irish, Indian and Ethiopian troops, now holding Elisabethville and other towns in a firm grip. An even more humiliating prospect for Tshombe lay in the U.N.'s announcement that a thousand troops from Adoula's central Congolese army soon could don blue helmets and join the U.N. force as "guards" in Katanga. Using these undisciplined, ill-trained troops was a considerable risk, but the U.N. decided on the move...