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...elections were over and the votes were counted, but for harassed Belgian officials in sweltering Léopoldville last week, the nightmare of readying the Congo for independence on June 30 had just begun...
...with the largest bloc of votes in the first Parliament, goateed Patrice Lumumba, 34, was a convicted embezzler; the only other leader who might command a following, chubby, erratic Joseph Kasavubu, 43, just three months ago was vowing to destroy the new nation by pulling his own Lower Congo region out and merging it with the French territory next door...
...Belgian government last week regretfully announced that it could not give the final results of the Congo's nationwide elections. Among the reasons: ¶In the Sankuru River, a motor launch carrying ballot boxes downstream struck a sandbar and sank. Boxes containing 10,-ooo ballots disappeared in a swirling mass of crocodiles...
Masters of the Congo Jungle. A camera roaming through densest Africa arrestingly catches the primordial behavior of man and beast...
With authority collapsing and district administrators leaving their posts in fear or exasperation, the Brussels government put its foot down. "We cannot allow it to be said that we gave the Congo its independence in a state of chaos," Premier Gaston Eyskens told Parliament. Secretly, he pulled a large part of Belgium's Liberation Division out of West Germany, airlifted it to Congo bases for use if futher trouble occurred. Tough Walter Ganshof van der Meersch, onetime prosecutor of Nazi collaborators, was installed as Minister for General Affairs in Africa and sent to the scene with full powers...