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...nationality, on a special mission to Stanleyville, where Antoine Gizenga holds sway over Eastern province and claims to be the only true heir of the late Patrice Lumumba. Gardiner persuaded Gizenga that it was safe to send a delegation to Leopoldville for the reopening of Parliament. In Katanga, the copper-rich secessionist province that stubbornly refused to share its wealth with the rest of the Congo, Linner's other U.N. emissary, Francis Nwokedi of Nigeria, was hard at work on the Deputies of stubborn "President" Moise Tshombe, who has been held as hostage in a villa near Leopoldville. Grumbling...
...thousand miles to the east, in Katanga's little copper-rich capital of Elisabethville, the flame trees were out in glorious profusion alongside the spacious swimming pools of the Union Miniére officials, whose mines and refineries were working at capacity. If the service had deteriorated at the little Hotel Leopold II, the cannibal sandwich (raw hamburger, raw egg, chopped onion) remained excellent at the terrace dining room. No one much cared when news arrived that Katanga's mercenaries had clashed with the U.N.'s Ethiopian troops up north where President Moise Tshombe was clearing...
Still another tough man to deal with is Belgian-backed Moise Tshombe, who emerged from the Madagascar conference as the Congo's strongest man. But he must open his purse strings in copper-rich Katanga province if federation is to get afloat. Said Tshombe with a smile: "The others have five-sixths of the Congo's land. I have five-sixths of the Congo's money. I am willing to negotiate." Basic Dispute. And while the Congolese settled among themselves, there was still their basic dispute with...
Congo President Kasavubu, who had fought Tshombe's separatist demands for copper-rich Katanga, now was willing to accept them. The assembled dignitaries carved the new boundaries of the Congo along tribal lines. The city of Leopoldville woutd be a "neutral" capital, somewhat like Washington. D.C. There, Kasavubu would sit as first President of the confederation...
...Copper-rich Northern Rhodesia supplies most of the federation's revenues. Racially, it is the pivotal state, lying between Nyasaland, which is almost all black and slated for black rule, and Southern Rhodesia, whose 215,000 white settlers intend to cling to power indefinitely. Macleod last week sprang a proposed new constitution on Northern Rhodesia's 73,000 whites and 2,280,000 blacks. As ingenious as it was complex, it was designed to give Africans an equal voice with the whites in government...