Word: adoula
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Dates: during 1961-1961
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...Hello, you old rascal," Tshombe grinned, shaking hands with Adoula in the second-floor waiting room of the Kitona hospital. "How've you been?" replied Adoula as he hugged his old adversary and escorted him into the troops' mess for some food and reminiscences...
...hoped the serious talks could start at once, but both sides were clearly determined to conduct things in the traditional Congolese way-lots of genial palaver as a preliminary buildup. In the afternoon, Tshombe napped in a high, hard hospital bed, while Adoula and several members of his delegation took a sightseeing tour along the cliffs over the Congo estuary. "That night the friendly palaver continued over beer, dinner, and lots of jokes about each other's misdeeds. Then they all went to bed, agreeing to get down to business next morning...
Flat Refusal. Gullion, with U.N. Un der Secretary Ralph Bunche and his top U.N. advisers, waited anxiously outside as the two delegations finally took their places around three simple green-topped tables. Now the jesting was over; loud voices could be heard in the corridor out side as Adoula made his demands that secessionist Katanga accept Leopoldville's control without qualification. At 3 p.m. the conferees ordered in beer and sandwiches, kept talking while they ate. At 8:30 p.m. came the call for more food, and this time some whisky. It now appeared that Tshombe was flatly refusing...
Just before midnight, the doors burst open and Adoula charged out, muttering angrily at Tshombe's intransigence. There was, he huffed, no point in continuing. Tshombe agreed, and ordered his plane made ready for the trip home...
...Last Meeting. Finally, at 2 a.m., as the baggage of both the Adoula and Tshombe delegations was being loaded onto their planes, the two sides wearily agreed to sit down for one last session. An hour later. Adoula came out to announce agreement; later his Information Minister read out the eight-point declaration that he said Tshombe had signed on Katanga's behalf. It included not only acceptance of the Loi Fondamentale, but recognition of the need of a unified Congo, and a promise to hand over control of Katanga's gendarmerie to Adoula's regime. Tshombe...