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...denied permission to land. A spokesman for the Katanga leader, Moise Tshombe, said that President Kasavubu was welcome, but "we refuse to let that other character set foot on Katangese soil." When the two harassed leaders took off from Luluabourg and headed for Stanleyville, they never made it: a Belgian crew member overheard Lumumba say he wanted to break off diplomatic relations with Belgium, and the Belgian pilot turned the plane toward Leopoldville, where Ndjili Airport was in the hands of Belgian paratroops...
...plane landed, the Belgians dutifully drew up an honor guard. Alighting, Lumumba stonily refused to review "enemy forces." A Belgian officer said: "Our presence here is only to protect the whites." Snapped Lumumba: "The whites need no protection, and we do not need your presence." As the two Congolese leaders waited for another plane to take them to Stanleyville, they were surrounded by an angry crowd of Belgian Lumumba was cursed and spat upon...
...help, and hinted darkly that unless he got it, the Congo would appeal to Communist China. No one in the Congolese government asked Belgium for anything, but Brussels moved swiftly in response to the cries of its beleaguered citizens. Para troops and commando units fanned out from the big Belgian military bases at Kamina and Kitona; planeloads of home troops were rushed to the Congo from Belgium...
...crack Belgian paratroops had been expected to display an iron discipline, in contrast with the disorderly and irrational behavior of the mutinous Congolese troops of the Force Publique. But the paratroops soon got out of hand. Storming their way into Leopoldville after cap turing the airport, they beat up any stray Africans they encountered, disarmed and arrested Congolese troops. When Congo Foreign Minister Justin Bomboko pro posed a truce, with joint patrols from both sides to police Leopoldville, the paratroops indignantly refused to sit be side "those black apes" in military jeeps. They were trigger-happy and arrogant. TIME Correspondent...
...foot off the ground. One of them shouted: "We ought to shoot this bastard full of holes!" Lumumba finally escaped under the escort of a U.S. embassy car. U.N. Representative Ralph Bunche, who had been confined to his hotel room by Force Publique mutineers, was manhandled by Belgian paratroops at the airport...