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...Belgian official in the Congo, Michel Struelens years ago became friendly with Katanga's Moise Tshombe. In October of 1960, he came to the U.S. as chief of the Katanga Information Service...
...felt so friendly toward Struelens that in August 1961 it asked him to take a trip to Katanga to explain U.S. views to Tshombe. He did. But a month later, the U.S. backed the move of United Nations forces against Tshombe's Katanga in support of the central Congo government. Around U.N. lounges, at luncheon clubs, in mailings to Congressmen, Struelens protested the U.N. action, spread stories about U.N. atrocities in Katanga. Then, all of a sudden, the State Department canceled Struelens' visa...
...Europeans carrying banners blazoned, "No G.I.s in Katanga!" At the U.S. consulate they trampled on an American flag and shattered windows with rocks and ripe mangoes. It was Secessionist Moise Tshombe's way of replying to the U.S. decision last week to send a military mission to the Congo to see what equipment the United Nations force will need to bring his secessionist Katanga province to heel...
Judging from the mood at the U.N. and in Washington, Tshombe will have plenty of other opportunities to signal his displeasure in coming weeks, for a showdown is rapidly shaping up. "Either the U.N. brings Tshombe to reason," fumed Robert K. A. Gardiner, top U.N. official in the Congo, "or it may as well get out right away. The longer we delay, the more we bring the U.N. into contempt." And, he might have added, the closer the U.N. moves to bankruptcy. It is already $76 million in the red from its 2½-year effort to reunify the Congo...
...last push simply by stalling long enough, U.N. Secretary-General U Thant decided to act. His instrument for "reconciliation"' is known simply as "The Plan," a four-part program drawn up last August and designed to force Tshombe to bring his mineral-rich province back into the Congo. Fortnight ago, Thant decided to stir up some action. Off to Britain, Belgium, Portugal and South Africa went letters urging a boycott on the copper and cobalt that earn some $200 million in foreign exchange for Katanga's giant Union Miniere each year. Most merely shrugged. Then, Adoula wrote...