Word: congos
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...European hostages still held by the Simbas in the Buta area north of Stanleyville, life had not been too bad. Although they had been bypassed by the mercenary-led columns that had cleared most of the rest of the northeast Congo, their captors had treated them well. The rebel commander ordered his Simbas not to molest them, and many of the Europeans still lived in their own houses. Some, after giving their word of honor that they would return to Buta, were permitted brief visits to government-held towns. The commander even allowed one Belgian nun to go on home...
Their first step was to vote full membership to a new applicant: Moise Tshombe, who despite his success in the difficult job of restoring order to the Congo had long been shunned in the councils of Africa. And when Tshombe entered the conference hall, his newfound friends rose from their seats and cheered. Beaming, Tshombe replied: "After four years of anarchy, the Congo sees a future that promises peace and happiness, thanks to your aid. The rebellion is over. All I can see is the socalled insurgent chiefs living abroad in hotels and acting like kings...
...CONGO. When Patrice Lumumba was murdered by his own native political enemies, a worldwide propaganda drive turned the unstable and squalid rabble-rouser into a martyr and tried to pin the deed on the CIA. Attempting to woo the Afro-Asian segment of world opinion, the Kennedy Administration joined the clamor against Lumumba's former enemies and supported the U.N. war against Moise Tshombe's Katanga province. Since then the U.S. has switched, is supporting Tshombe as the man who can conceivably avert chaos in the Congo and who so far has been successful in suppressing...
...that John Kennedy was the victim of an extremist plot. Again and again, with or without help from Red propaganda, such terms as "imperialism," "intervention," "exploitation" and "fallout" produce outbursts of unreasoning prejudice. Semantics run wild, or merely sloppy. Such labels as "mercenaries" for the government soldiers in the Congo and "constitutionalists" for the rebels in the present Dominican crisis, are picked up and repeated, subtly changing the climate of opinion...
They were the words of a winner-which Tshombe certainly was. With the voting complete at last, his Conaco electoral alliance seemed certain of a landslide majority in the Congo's 166-seat National Assembly. Though many votes were still uncounted, Moise had swept areas once hostile to him; he scored lopsided victories in provinces recently vacated by the rebels...