Word: congos
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...Katanga forces. The NATO allies, sorely split over the U.N. intervention, discussed a solution for hours at their Paris conference. They were really discussing the fate of one man-Katanga's Moise Tshombe, the crafty, flamboyant black leader who had taken his copperrich province out of the Congo and called it a nation...
Fear & Reluctance. With the U.N. more or less controlling Elisabethville and with Tshombe in flight, the U.N. had presumably reached its "limited objectives" of freedom of movement in Katanga. But what of the long-range objectives involving a Congo settlement...
...afraid of going to Leopoldville, fearing for his safety, and for prestige reasons Adoula is reluctant to meet Tshombe elsewhere. The terms of an agreement, once a meeting is arranged, will present an even more difficult problem. Even if Tshombe agrees-in effect at gunpoint-to join a Congo federation, the specific degree of each province's independence must be worked out, including the question of who disposes of Katanga's income...
Negotiating an agreement with Tshombe, tempering the bitterness left in Katanga, strengthening Adoula enough to enable him to cope with Gizenga, building a reasonably efficient and civilized administration in the Congo-all these are staggering tasks looming beyond the battle of Katanga. It is inconceivable that they can be carried out by the Congolese without outside help, which presumably will have to come from or through the U.N. Contemplating the travail of the Congo, which has a large Roman Catholic population, Pope John XXIII said last week: "Just as it was about to harvest, from political independence, the long-awaited...
...consulate in Elisabethville, some of them breaking into the building before the police finally arrived. In Brussels, university students threw stones and hunks of metal at the windows of the U.S. embassy, shouting "Down with the United Nations!" A deputy in parliament declared hotly that the U.S.-backed Congo operation was "savagery worthy of Mussolini in Ethiopia," and another Belgian likened the U.N.'s U Thant to Goebbels...