Word: gizenga
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...provinces and are spreading even farther. To many, it seemed that his only hope was reconciliation with the dissident elements that rack the land. Adoula apparently agreed, however reluctantly. As a trial balloon, he permitted his secretary-general to call openly for the liberation of long-imprisoned Leftist Antoine Gizenga, and amnesty for Rightist Albert Kalonji, onetime Mulopwe (god-emperor) of south Kasai...
...when the sun sets over the Congo River, Leo is transformed into a ghost town. Adoula also closed his border with the neighboring Brazzaville Congo, where the Peking-backed Congolese National Liberation Committee has its Western headquarters. Formed by politicians loyal to the late Patrice Lumumba and imprisoned Antoine Gizenga, the rebel group is determined to carve up Adoula's tottering nation. Last week, in bucolic, mountainous Kivu province, where the Congo borders Rwanda and Burundi, the rebels were well on their way to success...
Leader of the rebels is Pierre Mulele, 34, self-styled "ambassador" to Cairo under the ousted secessionist regime of Red-lining Antoine Gizenga, who has been in prison for the last two years. Mulele lived in Egypt as Nasser's guest for a while, then departed for Red China, where he received training in guerrilla tactics. Secretly returning to Kwilu province last summer, he organized military training camps in the dense forests, made frequent trips to Brazzaville, capital of the former French Congo and the hangout for exiled Congolese extremists plotting against the central government. There, Mulele presumably obtained...
...unemployed overthrew President Fulbert Youlou in the ex-French Congo across the Congo River in Brazzaville. The upheaval fired the imaginations of labor leaders in Leopoldville, whose slums teem with thousands of jobless. They were joined by followers of the late Patrice Lumumba and his leftist successor, Antoine Gizenga. Although he is imprisoned on an island in the river, his African Solidarity Party remains well organized...
...businessmen are returning; many intend to stay for only a short period, but others have even brought their wives and children back, and a few black nannies are again seen in the parks with their white charges. Adoula has deposed and jailed the worst regional extremists, notably erratic Antoine Gizenga, who almost made Eastern Province a Communist preserve last year, and zany "King" Albert Kalonji of South Kasai. But Adoula still has not rid himself of the biggest headache of all, stubborn President Moise Tshombe of Katanga Province, who has a firm grip on the Congo's copper-rich...