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...Belgian Cement Worker Albert Verbrugghe was driving his wife and another woman down a quiet street in the copper town of Jadotville one day last week, when he suddenly heard the clatter of gunfire. Pulling the triggers for no apparent reason were nervous Indian troops of the advancing United Nations force. Verbrugghe slammed his little Volkswagen to a halt. His wife was already dead, the other woman dying. With an anguished scream. Verbrugghe stumbled out, blood streaming from a wound under his eye. "My wife is killed," he cried...
Things were going less smoothly back at U.N. headquarters in Manhattan. Convinced that Thant had deceived them about Jadotville, Belgian and British diplomats wanted to know what had happened. Thant intimated that his aides in the Congo had exceeded their orders. "There occurred a serious breakdown," a spokesman said, "in effective communication and coordination between the U.N. headquarters and the Leopoldville office.'' Off to Leopoldville "to determine the cause of this lapse and to ensure it will not recur" flew U.N. Under Secretary Ralph Bunche. But once there, Bunche announced that the U.N. still wanted "freedom of movement...
...plan for Congolese federation, which includes guaranteeing Leopoldville 30 per cent of the foreign exchange earned by the Union Miniere and abolishing the Kantangan army, and which Mr. Tshombe will be virtually compelled to accept, is the Secretary-General's own invention. Yet his wording has successfully invited Belgian and British sympathy by clouding over the issue of colonialism which delights African nationalists but infuriates European conservative parliamentarians. In short, the Thant strategy has finally won over all the Western allies save France, who sticks proudly to her defiance of anti-colonialist ideology and her refusal to believe that...
...Foreign Minister Paul-Henri Spaak, has run out of patience with Mr. Tshombe. In September, 1961, M. Spaak (then not in office) had hoped for the classic alternative of subduing the breezy Katangan chief by private means; now he grasps faintly at U Thant's tactful straws. The Belgian government's resolution must have been considerably fortified by Mr. Tshombe's talk of "scorched earth" and his attempts to blow up several key Union Miniere installations. Even what M. Spaak describes as his "preoccupation," meaning alarm, with the more confusing aspects of the U.N. expedition (such as the presumed communications...
...Belgian official in the Congo, Michel Struelens years ago became friendly with Katanga's Moise Tshombe. In October of 1960, he came to the U.S. as chief of the Katanga Information Service...