Word: adoula
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...residence for Soviet Ambassador Sergei Nemchina and his 100-man staff of operatives. Two of Nemchina's most important aides, his slim, fair embassy counselor Boris Voronin and stocky, bushy-haired Press Attaché Yuri Miakotnykh, have developed especially close contacts with extremists opposed to Premier Cyrille Adoula's moderate regime. Miakotnykh worked hard to penetrate the trade unions and left-wing student groups, even lobbied in the corridors of Parliament...
...last week, when Voronin and Miakotnykh drove down to the river bank, known as "le Beach," for the ferry ride over to Brazzaville, Adoula's cops decided to stop them on the way back and find out what they had been up to. Surrounding their car at the landing stage, Congolese police insisted on a search. With a shrug, the Russians opened the trunk, then let them look in the front and back seats...
...Mobil, Shell and Belgium's Petrofina. E.N.I. landed a $13 million contract to build the only refinery in the Congo, and the four rivals will have to buy from it to supply their gas stations. Their severe protests have so irritated the Congo government that Prime Minister Cyrille Adoula last week threatened to expel two complaining Shell and Petrofina executives...
...Kwilu province 300 miles east of Leopoldville. The Russian embassy, closed after Lumumba's overthrow in 1960 but reopened a year ago, also got busy again. In September the situation began to worry the band of anti-Communist strongmen, known as the "Binza Group,"* who have kept Adoula in power. Fed up with the do-nothing Parliament (which once had to be locked in by U.N. troops in order to elect a government), the Binza boys pressured President Joseph Kasavubu into suspending Parliament, ostensibly because it had failed to draft a new constitution. More and more a front...
...organize a government workers' strike, it failed miserably. Five unionists were jailed, while Defense Minister Anany accused "a foreign embassy" of "paying agitators," named no names; but the pro-government newspaper, Le Progrés, accused the Russian, Czech and Egyptian legations. At week's end Adoula was still Premier, but he had been severely weakened by his aggressive Binza buddies, who may or may not decide to keep...