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Ironically, Tshombe came home on invitation of his onetime archenemy, Premier Cyrille Adoula, whose government now needs all the help it can get. Adoula's inept 35,000-man army has proved itself incapable of suppressing Communist-encouraged rebellions that already engulf three provinces and are spreading even farther. To many, it seemed that his only hope was reconciliation with the dissident elements that rack the land. Adoula apparently agreed, however reluctantly. As a trial balloon, he permitted his secretary-general to call openly for the liberation of long-imprisoned Leftist Antoine Gizenga, and amnesty for Rightist Albert Kalonji...
...elimination of Jason Sendwe, leader of Katanga's once rebellious Baluba tribe and provincial president of north Katanga. Captured two weeks ago, Sendwe and three of his lieutenants were knifed to death in Albertville by the Jeunesse, according to reliable reports. With the aid of the survivors, Adoula could form a compromise regime to keep some kind of order in the months ahead...
Tshombe, for one, was quite willing to be reconciled. After a four-hour meeting with Adoula, he called a press conference at Leopoldville's Zoo Restaurant. While monkeys chattered and brightly dressed Congolese couples twisted to the music of the Conga Succes jazz band, a grinning Tshombe shook hands, signed autographs and proclaimed: "I'm convinced that sincere, total reconciliation between all Congolese is the only absolute condition for saving the country from misery and anarchy." The crowd shouted back: "Free us! Free us!" This was heady stuff, but then everything in the months ahead would...
...again. This seemed accurate enough, for Dearborn and Coney last week headed back to Leopoldville to help train replacements-a dozen anti-Castro Cuban volunteers, most of them survivors of the Bay of Pigs fiasco, who have gone to the Congo to provide some kind of air support for Adoula's faltering army. Within a week, they will head east toward the fighting zones...
...month ago the government managed to regain control from dissident rebels. Now once again, the streets of Albertville were alive with armed insurgents; scores of whites gathered at the tiny airport in hopes of evacuation, while others took refuge on two steamers anchored offshore in Lake Tanganyika. Where was Adoula's army? Also seeking safety, by all accounts. When last seen, elements of the local garrison were heading swiftly for the bush...