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...CONGO. When the Belgian colony precipitately won independence in 1960, the new nation collapsed in mutiny and civil war. The U.N. decided to intervene, and initially there was no Big Power opposition. Some 20,000 U.N. troops from 21 countries fought to subdue Moise Tshombe's secession in Katanga and, indirectly, to prevent a Communist takeover in the rest of the Congo. Many still feel that U.N. troops should never have performed a fighting role and that it was wrong to put down Tshombe, who has since emerged as the only figure capable of giving the country even...
Conference in Luluabourg. Like a cowboy leading a stampede, Tshombe himself is running hardest and fastest. Hardly had he returned from Brussels last month, triumphantly displaying the former colonial government's long-promised portfolio of shares in the Congo's Belgian-owned industries, than he was racing to consolidate his success politically. Crowing that the "return of the portfolio" was the equivalent of political and economic independence -and the symbol of national dignity-Tshombe flew off for a conference with other political leaders in Luluabourg. The object was to form an electoral alliance that would carry him through...
...rebels' only chance to be anything but jungle terrorists. In the northeastern Congo last week, Tshombe's troops were preparing to move. In Bunia, near the Uganda border, Major Mike Hoare had arrived with 300 fresh mercenaries from South Africa and Rhodesia. An additional 400 Belgian and French mercenaries were poised in the jungle towns to the west of the rebels' center, and Tshombe's own Congolese army was not far behind, presumably waiting only for the end of the O.A.U. conference to strike. Object of the new offensive: to cut off the rebels' only...
...given generations of its sons as army officers and civil servants to the crown. Casement was raised in County Antrim and eventually joined the foreign service. A handsome bachelor, he spent nearly a third of his life in Africa, and while serving as a British consul in the Belgian Congo exposed the brutalities imposed on the natives by the administrators of Belgium's King Leopold...
...dates back to the period before Congolese independence in 1960, when the colonial government had owned stock in most of the Belgian companies working in the Congo. The new Congolese regime promptly laid claim to the portfolio, but could not get together with the Belgians on terms. Premiers Patrice Lumumba and Cyrille Adoula proved unable to resolve the "contention." Moise, however, is an old hand at bargaining. Last December he set the tone for talks by blithely announcing that his government planned to take over all mining, forestry and transportation concessions in the Congo. The stunned Belgians realized that...