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...ministers filed awkwardly into the palatial reception room overlooking the rapids of the Congo River, then raised their right arms stiffly as they took the oath of. office. Some of them got the phrase backward, but that didn't seem to matter. Premier Moise Tshombe grinned, clapped his new government on the back, and capered with flailing fists in a mad jig down the bright green lawn as his admirers screamed their approval: "Down with Adoula and vive Tshombe." Thus the Congo's fourth Premier in as many years began his rule...
...Public Salvation." It had been a masterful performance so far. When Katanga's bulky ex-President returned to the Congo last month, it seemed incredible that he could hope to form a government. Cursed as a tool of Belgium's copper-producing Union Minie´re, accused by some of the murder of Patrice Lumumba, and driven out of the country by the force of United Nations arms, Tshombe appeared to have nothing in his favor...
...still had Katanga, and without the political support of that ore-packed province the Congo is just another bleak, hopeless stretch of African bush. It was clear that Cyrille Adoula's government could not repress the Communist-backed revolts flaming in three provinces when Tshombe finally returned. Why not let him take a crack at forming a "government of national reconciliation...
...Mulopwe (god-emperor) Albert Kalonji, a secessionist right-winger who is still formally charged by Adoula's government with torturing political prisoners. The new Health Minister is none other than Andre´ Lubaya, a key official in the Communist-backed National Liberation Committee, which runs the Congo's endemic provincial rebellions. Recognizing the dangers of giving more portfolios to potential enemies, Tshombe took the ministries of Foreign Trade, Planning, Information and Foreign Affairs for himself, named his old Katanga henchman Godefroid Munongo to head the Interior and Civil Service ministries...
...really say that the promises of allegiance that Tshombe was getting would remain firmly in his control. But even if he fails in his search for reconciliation, he still has his political base of Katanga to fall back upon. And mineral-rich Katanga is the linchpin on which the Congo's economy hangs...