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...political news from the Congo sounded better. The central government of Premier Cyrille Adoula was gaining strength. Moise Tshombe of Katanga seemed to be playing along with Adoula, at least for the moment, and Red-backed Antoine Gizenga had been toppled from power. The U.S. could only keep its fingers crossed and, through the U.N., nurse along the Central Government as best it could. But other news reminded the world of an ugly fact. The Congo as a whole-Adoula's, Tshombe's, Gizenga's or anyone else's-is still a savage society...
Death Without Reason. Loose in the Congo were 3,000 wild men with machine guns, rifles, pistols, and a penchant for bizarre murder. These were the soldiers of the Central Congolese army, who took their orders from Antoine Gizenga's secessionist Stanleyville regime. Now, with Gizenga's authority broken, the ragtag little army roamed aimlessly through the eastern Congo, with few leaders and no purpose. They needed no excuse to kill; these were the men who pounced on the 13 Italian U.N. airplane crewmen in Kivu Province last November and hacked them to pieces simply because they were...
Last week word of the rabble's latest atrocity reached the outside world. This time the scene was Kongolo, a river town in northern Katanga which Gizenga's men occupied on Dec. 31. Outside Kongolo was the modest Catholic Mission of the Holy Spirit, where a score of sandaled, white-robed Belgian fathers had calmly continued operating their school through all the months of war and political crisis: "It is God's will that we are here," they shrugged, ignoring repeated pleas that they leave for their own safety...
What alarmed U.N. officials most was a report that the unruly soldiers might regroup and head back toward Stanleyville. Word now had reached the maraud ers that their erstwhile chief, Antoine Gizenga. was under house arrest by Adoula's Central Government forces; the unpredictable soldiers just might decide to wage a last-ditch battle on his behalf. In case they did, a U.N. airplane flew up to Stanleyville to transfer Gizenga to Leopoldville. There the rebel was not yet under formal arrest; for the moment he was living under guard in an apartment at U.N. headquarters in the capital...
This would dispose of the problem of Gizenga, but Adoula still faced the urgent need of finding a substitute who could bring troublesome Eastern Province under control. First task was to round up and disarm the savages in uniform...