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Died. Joseph Kasavubu, 56, President of the Congo Republic in the stormy first years of nationhood; of a brain hemorrhage; in Boma, Lower Congo. Kasavubu took office in 1960 at a time of total chaos: the army began to mutiny, mineral-rich Katanga was threatening to secede, Premier Patrice Lumumba seemed bent on turning the country Communist. What saved Kasavubu was an Army coup by Colonel Joseph Mobutu, who thereafter largely held the power while allowing Kasavubu to administer, until Mobutu deposed him in 1965 to assume the presidency himself...
...settlers demanded army intervention in the Congo. So did Belgian newspapers, and La Libre Belgique cried: "It would be madness to worry now about legal scruples." More details came in: two Europeans had been killed at Kongolo; hundreds were isolated and under attack at the river ports of Boma and Matadi; 1,200 Belgians were trapped in an office building in Luluabourg and appealing desperately for helicopters, guns and paratroopers. Abruptly, Premier Eyskens' government reversed itself. Some hundred Belgian paratroopers were bundled aboard planes for Léopoldville; Sabena, the Belgian airline, canceled all commercial flights to rush...
Last week Miss Bonfils and four other executors filed an inventory of her father's estate. It was valued at $8,200,266, mostly in shares of the family's Boma Investment Co. One item of 2,151 capital shares of Colorado-African Expedition Inc. was valued at nothing...
...from the coal business, mining schemes, oil, real estate, Denver's Empress Theatre (burlesque). He used to tell friends that he was worth $60,000,000. Most Denverites think the correct figure was nearer $10,000,000. Bulk of the fortune was tied up in a family corporation, Boma Investment Co. Bonfils, who had visited Africa, named it for the thorn bomas built by natives "to keep beasts out." The Bonfils will, opened last week, left practically the whole estate (amount unspecified) to "The Fred G. Bonfils Foundation for the Advancement of the Welfare of Mankind...
Their Majesties' present Afric tour was preluded when they left Antwerp some weeks ago on the steamer Thysville, but began in earnest as they landed at Boma, in the mouth of Mother Congo. The big black toe of Congoland was their objective-namely the city of Elizabethville, which lies 900 miles inland, at the very toe and tip of the Belgian Congo, just where it touches Great Britain's colony of Northern Rhodesia (so named after its exploiter, Cecil John Rhodes). Between Elizabethville and Port Franc-qui (named after the rehabilitator of Belgium's currency, former Finance...