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...been a 2½-year siege that brought the U.N. close to bankruptcy, set the U.S. at odds with its principal European allies and threatened to immerse Central Africa in blood. Now, Katanga's Rebel Moise Tshombe sat wanly behind a desk in a stucco cottage in the copper town of Kolwezi and declared, "I am ready to proclaim immediately before the world that Katanga's secession is ended...
...Jacques Houard, Belgium's consul general in Salisbury, Southern Rhodesia, and André Van Roey, director of Katanga's National Bank, followed him there. For 36 desperate hours, the two urged him to yield rather than carry out his threat to blow up the huge dams and copper and cobalt mines operated by the giant Union Minière company in Kolwezi. Finally, convinced that he had no alternative, Tshombe gave...
...gallows!" At the British embassy, which is considered fair game because of London's friendly policy toward Katanga, the mob battered down the doors, sacked the offices, and tried to pry off a coat of arms because, as one student cried, "It's made of Katanga copper!" After an hour, the U.N.'s Congo Chief Robert Gardiner arrived and scattered the mob. All the while, a jeep-load of Adoula's cops sat chuckling near by, making no move to stop the pillage...
Diversionary Actions. Just now the Union Minière is not producing any copper; its installations at Elisabethville and Jadotville, now under U.N. control, have been temporarily damaged, and its Kolwezi facilities are occupied by the Katanga gendarmerie. But with its usual instinct for survival, the company has labored to appease both sides. At the big Jadotville copper and cobalt plant, Union Minière officials thwarted the "scorched earth" tactics of Tshombe's men by directing them to relatively easily replaceable facilities which were damaged with much fanfare. Shortly later, the same officials, many of whom had long...
...After the U.S.'s Kennecott Copper and Anaconda...