Word: burundi
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...moment, it looked as if the cold war had reached flash point in Burundi. The tiny African nation had been the biggest base for Red Chinese subversion on the continent. Fortnight ago, when moderate Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe was installed to check Peking's rising influence, nobody doubted that the Chinese would respond. Then the Premier was gunned down on the steps of a Bujumbura hospital. But the man who was arrested was a local African employed as a stenotypist in the U.S. embassy. Immediately, the noisy cry echoed through Africa: "Imperialist plot...
Even more mysterious was the assassination of Burundi's Premier Pierre Ngendandumwe, who was gunned down on the steps of a hospital in Bujumbura after a visit to his wife, who had just given birth to a baby. A moderate, Ngendandumwe had been in office only eight days, having replaced a pro-Peking regime headed by Albin Nyamoya. Burundi has been Red China's major East African base for subversion directed against the Congo, but with the assassin still at large, there was no way of knowing who had put him up to the deed...
...Other shipments arrived by sea at Tanzania's capital of Dar es Salaam, were sent in sealed boxcars to the lake port of Kigoma, then were shipped either directly across Lake Tanganyika to the rebel-held area of the Congo around Baraka or through the small kingdom of Burundi...
...sending officers to operate with the rebels "along the entire length of the Congo's northeastern frontier." Though Tshombe could produce no concrete evidence that the outsiders had actually crossed into the Congo to lead Simba troops, intelligence sources several weeks ago identified an Algerian officer in the Burundi capital of Bujumbura, where Congolese rebels long maintained their eastern headquarters. Some 40 "Arabs," who may be Algerian officers, are reported to be standing by at Juba in the southern Sudan...
...Burundi's Foreign Minister Joseph Mbazumutima sneered that Premier Tshombe's white allies consider "the blacks, by definition, killers and liars." And Mali's Foreign Minister Ousman Ba even accused the U.S. of "massive cannibalism...