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...courtyards of the Czech and Soviet embassies in Léopoldville, documents burned by night, and workers nailed covers on big wooden crates. In the Red Chinese mission, clothes were hastily crammed into suitcases. Then Communism's Congo corps of diplomats, "technicians" and correspondents rolled in melancholy procession to the Leopoldville airport and there boarded Ilyushins for home, expelled on orders from the Congo's latest government. Snapped one Russian diplomat: "We'll be back." But at least for the moment, the Russians' chief ally in the Congo, demagogic Premier Patrice Lumumba, had lost his grip...
...Last week, everywhere Western diplomats turned. Communist weeds were sprouting in the freshly plowed soil of African nationhood Guinea's Sekou Toure turned to the East for aid after France responded to his demand for independence by withdrawing everything down to the Government House furniture NOW he has Czechs operating his airports, Poles running his public works and East Germans building him a big new radio station. Ethiopia's proud Haile Selassie is well nigh awash with Soviet and Czech financial credits and, inevitably with hundreds of Red technicians...
...that his tribesmen, mainly armed with bows and arrows, could resist the "invaders," Kalonji hastily flew off to Elisabethville to beg aid from his fellow secessionist, President Moise Tshombe of Katanga-the mineral-rich province immediately to the southeast. But Lumumba's platoons, led, so Kalonji claimed, by Czech officers, rolled into Bakwanga and took over the town and its nearby diamond mine with scarcely a shot...
...opportunity to try a bit of espionage. Straying from their original flight plan over the Mediterranean, they swung over Spain on a course that would take them over U.S. airbases near the cities of Saragossa, Madrid and Seville, presumably to make a radar survey for possible future use. The Czech planes were intercepted by Spanish F-86 fighters and herded back across the border...
...arms from Czechoslovakia, hinting at the well-known fact that some of these weapons ended up in the hands of dissident Cameroon tribes men. "If there are troops in Cameroon, whose fault is it?" Okala demanded. "We have all tried to get rid of foreign troops, but Guinea has Czech arms with which people are being assassinated, and we have documents to prove...