Word: adoula
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...days is that model T of an airplane, the T-28 trainer. Rigged with rockets and 50-cal. ma chine guns, half a dozen of the U.S.-donated aircraft have proved to be le thal weapons against the ragged rebels who are undermining the shaky regime of Premier Cyrille Adoula on the eve of the U.N.'s departure June...
...coming back. Leopoldville has been rocked by a succession of antigovernment plastic-bomb explosions since May. In Kwilu Province, the Communist-inspired Jeunesse (youth), led by Pierre Mulele, still hold their own against Congolese troops. Though one of the Congo's provincial presidents recently sent Premier Cyrille Adoula a hippopotamus, the traditional sign of loyalty, it is clear that the Congo's 21 provinces remain precariously balanced on the brink of anarchy...
...counter the plastiqueurs of Leopoldville, Adoula imposed a 6 p.m. curfew, and now each day when the sun sets over the Congo River, Leo is transformed into a ghost town. Adoula also closed his border with the neighboring Brazzaville Congo, where the Peking-backed Congolese National Liberation Committee has its Western headquarters. Formed by politicians loyal to the late Patrice Lumumba and imprisoned Antoine Gizenga, the rebel group is determined to carve up Adoula's tottering nation. Last week, in bucolic, mountainous Kivu province, where the Congo borders Rwanda and Burundi, the rebels were well on their...
...began evacuating women and children. The government's local commander, who had been a sergeant in the Belgian Force Pitblique, regrouped 300 of his men in Bukavu, got advice over the phone from three Belgian colonels and his former commanding officer, now Belgian Ambassador to Burundi. Premier Adoula swallowed his pride and asked the U.N. for help. In flew a U.S. Air Force C-130 with armored cars and reinforcements. For the moment, the pygmoid threat to Bukavu seemed to have diminished. But the Congolese soldiers were taking no chances against mai Mulele: their witch doctors told them...
After four days of secret sessions, the two men emerged beaming. "The contentieux are now behind us," Adoula announced. Spaak had recognized the Congolese government's claim to the stock portfolio but left vague the question of its future management. On the question of the public debt, Adoula agreed to pay; Spaak offered a sweetener of $20 million in commercial credit to Adoula's near-bankrupt government, plus another $3.6 million for development of a Congolese cotton industry...