Word: bamba
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...government told it, the principal plotters were Evariste Kimba, who had been the Congo's last civilian Premier, and onetime (until 1964) Finance Minister Emmanuel Bamba. Together with two other ex-Ministers they were accused of trying to get the Leopoldville army garrisons to rise against Mobutu. The attempt failed, charged the regime, only because the officers with whom they were plotting remained secretly loyal to Mobutu-and the authorities arrested them hours before the uprising was supposed to have started...
...Communist-led band descended upon anti-Communists in the town of Cliza and touched off a four-day battle that left 100 dead. On the second day U.S. Ambassador (and former Math Professor) Carl Strom was heckled and stoned during and after a nonpolitical scientific lecture at Cocha-bamba's San Simón University...