Word: garrisoning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Certainly nothing was yet settled. The U.N. can legally remain in the Congo only at the invitation of the Congo government, and last week Premier Lumumba, growling ominously about the pressures on him, called on Hammarskjold to abandon his plans to garrison Katanga province with mixed black and white forces (Swedish, Moroccan and Ethiopian), demanded a totally black force instead. "African troops," he insisted, "are completely capable of carrying out the U.N. mission." In Accra, Ghana's Nkrumah was still talking up the formation of an "All-African" army composed of units from Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R. and "volunteers...
...nervous Nazi garrison at St. Nazaire got its answer soon enough. In the wake of the hit-and-run bombers that ominous night in March 1942, a motley armada ghosted in across the broad tidal flats of the Loire estuary. Thin-skinned motor launches flicked their white wakes into the glare of hastily lowered searchlights. Ack-ack gunners frantically cranked their weapons toward zero elevation. Shells screamed across the river, and the water ran with fire as fuel tanks were...
Pushing on to the important river port of Matadi, Ben Omar found that all but five of its 1,600 Europeans had fled. The Congolese garrison had successfully held the town against a Belgian attack; yet not a shot was fired as the Moroccans moved in. Several truckloads of mutineers were hauling off loot from European homes; at Ben Omar's command, they sheepishly returned the stolen goods to the sacked houses...
Militarily, the Belgians did not do so well. They restored order in the white section of Leopoldville, in Luluabourg chased Congolese mutineers away from a hotel where they had besieged 75 whites for two days. But they failed embarrassingly in an attack on the Congolese garrison of the river port of Matadi...
...emerged last week as the coolest and most courageous member of the Congolese government, went to the Leopold II Barracks to negotiate with the army mutineers. A compromise was effected: President Joseph Kasavubu would become commander in chief of the Force Publique in place of General Janssens; the garrison would get native officers; and the army would be run by a general staff, part Belgian and part Congolese...