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...hour later, Tshombe proved to be as good as his word. Into Leopoldville's Ndjili Airport flew an Air Congo Beechcraft carrying Leftist Leader Antoine Gizenga, self-proclaimed heir to Patrice Lumumba and the instigator of Stanleyville's bloody 1961 revolt. Clad in a red, white and blue ski sweater, Gizenga was unshaven but smiling as he stepped out of the plane, apparently none the worse for the 2½ years he had spent on Bulambemba, an island prison in the mouth of the Congo River. It had not been a painful confinement, for his obliging jailers...
Crossed Branches. Tshombe was determined to use Gizenga, and his considerable left-wing following, in his efforts to unify the Congo. Without giving Gizenga even enough time to shave, Tshombe put him into the back seat of a white Impala convertible. He also grabbed the onetime God-Emperor of Kasai province, Albert Kalonji, now Tshombe's Agriculture Minister, and set forth on a triumphant tour of Leopoldville's African quarter. For 21 hours, thousands of Congolese paid screaming homage to the unlikely trio, who as bitter rivals had once led the Congo's most ruinous major rebellions...
...first Cabinet meeting, Tshombe served champagne and Simba beer, then took three steps toward appeasing the N.L.C. and other dissident left-wingers. He ordered all political prisoners-including Leftist Antoine Gizenga -released immediately; he lifted the highly unpopular 5 p.m. curfew in Leopoldville; he abolished the post of Resident Minister in Stanleyville, thus ending the state of emergency in that Lumumbist stronghold. All of this was intended to change Tshombe's image from that of a white-hearted "sellout" to a true black African leader. But just in case it didn't work, the Congo...
...first Cabinet meeting, Tshombe served champagne and Simba beer, then took three steps toward appeasing the N.L.C. and other dissident left-wingers. He ordered all political prisoners - including Leftist Antoine Gizenga - released immediately; he lifted the highly unpopular 5 p.m. curfew in Leopoldville; he abolished the post of Resident Minister in Stanleyville, thus ending the state of emergency in that Lumumbist stronghold. All of this was intended to change Tshombe's image from that of a white-hearted "sellout" to a true black African leader. But just in case it didn't work, the Congo...
...Kasai's rightist "King" Albert Kalonji through such "moderate" face cards as Army Boss Joseph Mobutu and Justice Minister Justin Bomboko to the Communist-backed National Lib eration Committee's Andre Lubaya. But the N.L.C. could still prove a joker in Tshombe's hand: Leftist Antoine Gizenga still languished in forced exile last week on an island at the mouth of the Congo River. Not until the conditions of his freedom are established can any new government count on genuine reconciliation...