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Black Times Square. Harlem is the noise of Congo drums from a dark window and a throbbing twist beat on a transistor radio. It is street-corner churches and spired temples, 400 in all, always
...home with a telling blow: "We all regret Patrice Lumumba's death, but who amongst us has not executed opponents? Have you never signed an order to execute one of your rivals?" The reference was particularly timely, for vociferous objections advanced by some O.A.U. members had prevented the Congo's embattled Premier Moise Tshombe from attending the Cairo conference, partly on the grounds that he had acquiesced in the murder of Lumumba...
...homecoming week for the hawks of the Congo. On foot and on bicycles, in rickety lorries or astride crimson farm tractors, some 6,000 of Moise Tshombe's former secessionist gendarmes came swarming out of their hideouts in the bush to march triumphantly through East Katanga's capital of Elisabethville. Another 2,000 - still armed and under the command of white mercenary officers - waited in Angola, just on the other side of the Congolese border, for orders from the Congo's new Premier...
...paying those in Angola regularly and the boys in the bush when he could. It was well that he did, for he needs them now to stiffen the spine of the demoralized Congolese national army, which has been totally unable to quell Communist-encouraged tribal revolts in the eastern Congo. All it really takes to win a town is a long-distance telephone call. Usually when a rebel leader rings up his next target, the Congolese army contingent on hand flees before the rebels arrive...
...third of the Ethiopian air force. Of course, it consisted of only three air planes, one of which the Black Eagle managed to crash at the feet of Emperor Haile Selassie. After serving as an arms buyer for various Latin American countries, the Black Eagle showed up in the Congo, only to be arrested in 1962, then expelled by the United Nations for allegedly smuggling arms to Tshombe...