Word: adoula
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Even for the surrealistic Congo, the scene seemed weird as the Congolese Central Government's Premier Cyrille Adoula sat down to negotiate with his archenemy, Katanga's Moise Tshombe. The meeting place itself was strange enough-a hospital waiting room at a United Nations military base. And how did the angry foes start their discussion of the embattled Congo's future? With a fond embrace, knee-slapping guffaws and a day of jokes and laughter...
...daily, bloody harassment by local Katanga troops, whipped into excited and irresponsible action by rumor, radio and beer." After that, it became the task of hard-working U.S. Ambassador Edmund Gullion to corral Tshombe, who had fled to the Northern Rhodesia border, and bring him face to face with Adoula. Guaranteed safe passage, Tshombe agreed to fly-in President Eisenhower's old Columbine III-to the meeting in Kitona, a sweltering settlement near the mouth of the Congo River on the Atlantic...
...anti-Communist argument, the Washington reply went as follows: the central Congo government of Premier Cyrille Adoula, already shaky enough, cannot survive much longer if Tshombe's defiance of its authority continues indefinitely. And without Adoula, whom Washington regards as the Congo's ablest, most reliable leader, the way would be wide open to the Reds. In that event, Tshombe's anti-Communism would be of little help, even if his opposition to the Reds were as solid as advertised (which the U.S. doubts...
...undoubted risks. Last week Washington refused to go along with the demands of Britain and France for an immediate cease-fire at any cost. From the White House and the State Department came the line: No cease-fire until Tshombe agrees to negotiate a satisfactory settlement with Adoula. This did not 'mean that the U.S. wanted to destroy Moise Tshombe. He has a following and a talent for leadership too rare to dispense with. But to survive, insisted the U.S., he would have to use that talent for the Congo, not just Katanga. By week...
...stop the fighting. Kennedy wired back his prompt agreement and nominated his ambassador in Leopoldville, Edmund Asbury Gullion, to take on the task. But the U.N. pressure would not be relaxed unless Tshombe produced hard evidence of sincerity-in other words, until he left Elisabethville and met with Adoula...