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...Colombo. Dublin, Rome, Teheran, Melbourne and Delhi, demonstrators marched through the streets shouting "Lumumba!" and waving anti-Belgian placards. In Cairo, the Belgian embassy was set afire...
...urging Belgium to cease its arms buildup in Katanga-aid that, in African eyes, was just as "unilateral" and disruptive as the Communists' support for Gizenga. (With extraordinarily bad timing, a chartered Stratocruiser arrived in Katanga last week carrying three crated jet fighters, doubtless procured with Belgian assistance.) At one point, there was broad agreement among the Afro-Asians on a plan that would neutralize the competing Congolese army forces, oust all foreign military or paramilitary "advisers" and soldiers of fortune, bring back Parliament and a broadened central government...
...farmhouse and sticks of firewood with which the prisoners slugged the guards. But a photographer allowed to take pictures of the farmhouse reported "no signs of recent habitation," except for a bar of soap and pictures of the Matterhorn on the wall. Dr. G. E. Pieters, a Belgian who signed the death certificates, had no doubts about the identity of the principal victim ("You'd recognize that goatee and those bulging eyes anywhere"). Asked how the men had died, he replied: "What happened between my entry into the bush and my return is a medical secret. The code...
With Lumumba gone, the strongest man around is the man responsible for his death: Katanga's cold-blooded President Moise Tshombe. But Tshombe runs only one province, and is heartily disliked outside it. Last week his well-equipped army, led by 400 Belgian officers, struck into northern Katanga, easily pushed back pro-Lumumba Baluba tribesmen as far as the Lualaba River. Tshombe, wearing a Homburg, helicoptered to the front to congratulate his men. At Elisabethville airport, a Boeing Stratocruiser arrived, carrying in its hold three twin-jet Fouga Magisters, advertised as trainers but equipped for firing rockets...
Tshombe is backed in his province by a humming economy still run by the Belgians. Despite all of the Congo's troubles, the copper mines of Katanga's Belgian-owned Union Minière set production records last year, paid $50 million in taxes into Katanga's treasury. With his Belgian adviser, Colonel Guy Weber, always at his shoulder, Tshombe has launched an offensive to clear his province of Gizenga's invading soldiers. In partnership with the Léopoldville military boss, Major General Joseph Mobutu, Tshombe would like to go after Gizenga himself...