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...celebration fever mounted last week, thousands of plumed warriors with spears and blunderbusses hunted elephants, hippos and buffaloes in the bush to provide a fitting repast for the independence day feasting. Along Northern Rhodesia's Congo border, Bemba tribesmen blasted homemade, muzzle-loading guns into the night. In Lusaka, the capital, representatives from more than 60 nations gathered to watch the lighting of a 6-ft. freedom flame marking the rechristening of Northern Rhodesia as Zambia * and its proclamation as an independent republic within the British Commonwealth. President Kenneth Kaunda tooled around about town in his $11,000 Chrysler...
...representing nearly one billion people came to flag-festooned Cairo last week to praise neutralism and denounce imperialism in the second conference of nonaligned nations-and virtually nobody paid any attention. The man who stole the show was the man who wasn't even supposed to be there, Congo's Premier Moise Tshombe. Though loathed more than ever by most black leaders, Tshombe emerged from the week as almost a hero at home, and the protagonist of a very African episode that made his enemies look utterly foolish...
...reviewed U.N. actions in the Congo, Cyprus, and in West Irian, where he personally directed the organization's activities. And he commented on problems facing the U.N. from the questions of collecting overdue debts ("I can see no solution as of now"), of population control, of racial discrimination, and of internal changes...
...francs ($5,555,555) by their computation-they felt was due them. Tshombe brought them 40 million francs as a sweetener, and promised to send them to the military base at Kamina, where they would be forged into a crack fighting unit that would save the day for the Congo...
...cheered and cheered-until Tshombe was out of sight. Then, the gendarmes loaded their automatic rifles, cut the main roads into Kolwezi and held up the local branch of the Banque du Congo. From the vault they took an additional 30 million francs, then went out and got drunk. That night, as they slept it off in their boxcars, steam engines hissed up, locked on, and hauled them off to Kamina. Thus ended the long estrangement...