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Things are less pleasant at Stanleyville, the headquarters of Moscow-backed Antoine Gizenga, where months of near anarchy have left their mark on whites and blacks alike. Stanleyville's white population, once 4,000, had dwindled to a hardy 250. Along the Avenue Wagenia, many of the shops are closed, and salt and sugar are not to be found. In Gizenga's interior plantation country, the few remaining whites pay token salaries to black workers to fight back the encroaching jungle, despite the fact that markets for their goods are well-nigh gone. Down at Luluabourg, once...
Even Lumumba's heir in the Congo. Moscow-and Cairo-blessed Antoine Gizenga, has little to show from Nasser's friendship. Says Pierre Mulele, Gizenga's "chief of mission" in Cairo: "All the aid we have got from the U.A.R. is the visa that was given me to come here." Mulele lives as Nasser's guest in a suite in Shepheard's Hotel in Cairo, comforted by a big Siemens radio receiver to keep him in touch with Stanleyville. One Cairo diplomat sums up Nasser's diminished stature: "Nobody has much to hope...
Then he wanted the Assembly to recognize the "legitimate government" of Antoine Gizenga, Red-backed boss of Eastern Province. This was not all. Gromyko went on to denounce Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold as a "murderer" and a "stooge" who must be fired forthwith...
Hope now was that Gizenga would get in on the federation lest he lose even the provincial power he currently holds...
...chief problem among the local leaders is Stanleyville's pro-Communist boss and Patrice Lumumba's heir, Antoine Gizenga, who nervously decided to go to Madagascar, then obeyed direct Russian orders to stay home. But Gizenga's empire is shrinking; last week part of it got chopped off into the next state of Maniema. Gizenga's home ground is Leopoldville, and he does not even speak the common Stanleyville tongue, Swahili...