Word: gizenga
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...Contrails. Fact was, according to intelligence reports, that some shipments of Soviet arms and equipment had already arrived at the Stanleyville headquarters from which Antoine Gizenga's forces now controlled large sections of the Congo's vast interior. The route, apparently, was via Cairo and Gamal Abdel Nasser's high flying four-engined Ilyushins; Britain had received assurances from the Sudan that it would continue to forbid overland transit, but there was little the Sudanese could do about those mysterious south bound contrails occasionally spotted at 30,000 feet and higher...
...arms.. But many sensitive African nations were wary of too much power for the U.N. For its part, the U.S. was urging Belgium to cease its arms buildup in Katanga-aid that, in African eyes, was just as "unilateral" and disruptive as the Communists' support for Gizenga. (With extraordinarily bad timing, a chartered Stratocruiser arrived in Katanga last week carrying three crated jet fighters, doubtless procured with Belgian assistance.) At one point, there was broad agreement among the Afro-Asians on a plan that would neutralize the competing Congolese army forces, oust all foreign military or paramilitary "advisers...
...news of Lumumba's death, and in the thunder of Moscow's political drums, hopes of agreement suddenly faded in a welter of confusion. But it soon became clear that although several African nations (Ghana, Guinea, the U.A.R., Mali, Morocco) quickly joined the Russians in recognizing Gizenga's "government," that was where Moscow's success stopped. Mali and Guinea spoke up halfheartedly for Hammarskjold's resignation (but not his ouster); most shared the view of one Asian who admitted, "We're all at fault for not giving Hammarskjold a stronger mandate...
Hastily, the Afro-Asians reached agreement at last on a resolution that most could support. Its main provisions: 1) the U.N. is to stop the Congo's civil war, using force if necessary to prevent clashes; 2) the opposing Congolese army units (Gizenga's, Mobutu's, Tshombe's) should be disarmed under U.N. control and taken out of politics; 3) all Belgians and other foreign military and political personnel should be forced out of the country; 4) Parliament is to be reconvened...
...intercept such contraband. This was, after all, the key to peace. But when the U.S. proposed amendments to close these loopholes, some of the resolution's backers were strangely reluctant to agree; one of them was Nasser's U.A.R., which had been trafficking in arms for Gizenga for some weeks and perhaps wanted to continue doing...