Word: algerias
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...took care to line his pockets while in office and was living nicely in Madrid when the Congo sentenced him to death in absentia for treason earlier this year. Yet last week, as Tshombe remained imprisoned in Algeria, in imminent danger of being shipped back to the Congo, some Africans were feeling apprehension about the damage his execution might do to the international repute, already shaky, of their nations. And politicians in the volatile African states glimpsed what might be, to say the least, an uncomfortable precedent...
Dark Encounters. This book's title, The Time of Friendship, is of course ironic, masking profound misanthropy. Every tale he tells leads to a dark encounter, the collapse of friendship, the failure of understanding. In the title story, a Swiss schoolmistress in Algeria befriends a Moslem youth and tries her civilizing Christianity on him; he destroys her Christmas creche and tricks her into helping him join the F.L.N. In The Hours After Noon, a genteel French lecher, visiting an archaeological camp, gestures toward a Moroccan girl and ends up behind a boulder with a wire around his neck...
When ex-convict kidnapped former Congolese premier Moise Tshombe and took him to Algeria, current Congolese President Joseph Mobutu told the United Nations that Tshombe had been plotting a military takeover with the help of Spainards, Portuguese, and South Africans. Apparently white South Africa was willing to help Tshombe against Mobutu, who is playing the role of nationalist leader. Most evidence indicates that Tshombe (who was living in Spain) was in fact, involved in 8 plot: there would be destruction of the Congolese economy by sabotage, a coup in eastern Congo by white mercenaries, the creation of a new Congo...
...that resulted in the deaths of many mercenaries and about 30 white civilians. The Congolese troops, with the aid of three United States Air Force transport aircraft, suppressed the mercenaries in the east and forced them to begin withdrawal from the country. Finally, Mobutu has obtained his wish that Algeria send Tshombe to the Congo, where he is under sentence of death...
These Senators would be more constructive in the Congo situation if they would exert pressure on the State Department to help block any possible execution of Tshombe. His kidnapping, detention in Algeria, and proposed extradition to the Congo has been high-handed. An execution for political reasons would be even worse. No matter how destructive Tshombe has been, the United States should use its influence to convince Mobutu to try Tshombe under Congolese...