Word: adoula
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...after four years of chaos, mutiny and massacre, the Belgians and Congolese are making moves to get together again. With the United Nations' peacekeeping force due to pull out in three months, Premier Cyrille Adoula's shaky government needs all the help it can get. And with 60,000 Belgians still living and working in the Congo (compared with 100,000 before independence). Brussels is eager to re-establish political and military influence...
...Dash of Sweetener. Last August negotiations over the contentieux broke down, and Congolese Premier Cyrille Adoula flew home from Brussels in a jet-propelled snit. His mood was not improved when the Belgians, three months later, failed in a move to ease him out of office. Papa Spaak's visit last week was aimed at renewing the negotiations. Long a friend of Adoula's central government, Spaak had opposed the Belgian conservatives who backed Katanga's secession...
...parliamentary government has been a miserable failure. Last September, confusion was so great in the Parliament that it was prorogued. This spring the Congolese hope to vote for a new Parliament-with no great expectation of improvement. After the election, the United Nations troops that have held Premier Cyrille Adoula's government together will pull out. Already the vultures (including Mulele) are circling, and many feel that Adoula may be the Kerensky of Africa...
...under the late leftist Premier Patrice Lumumba, the rebels-who call themselves the Jeunesse (youth), though many are over 50-count only a few hundred hard-core Reds. But they have incited thousands of local tribesmen to rise against the "profiteers of independence," as Mulele has labeled Premier Cyrille Adoula's government. The terrorists operate along classic Mao Tse-tung guerrilla lines, spout an unmistakable doctrine. For example, their interpretation of the United States AID agency's clasped-hands symbol is that the U.S. is "pulling the Congolese into slavery." They also blend in their own brand...
...upon Mulele's outposts, they found copies of Mao Tse-tung's handbook on guerrilla warfare, Soviet-made cameras, a combat radio, homemade gasoline bombs made from beer bottles-and two Russian fur hats. It was just such subversive activities as this that led Congo Premier Cyrille Adoula to expel Russia's entire 100-man mission from Leopoldville last November. Clearly, Moscow's men were still not ready to give up their primary effort: to topple Adoula's government...