Word: gizenga
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Last week it happened again in the arrival of a planeload of emergency supplies donated by the U.S. for flood-battered Stanleyville. It was quite a moment for the lazy little river capital of Eastern Prov ince, stronghold of Red-backed Antoine Gizenga, whose own rebellion against the central government had for a time seemed as serious as Moise Tshombe's in Katanga...
...generous toward Tshombe, if he is willing to end the secession. The question remains how generous Adoula can afford to be without weakening his own position in the eyes of his supporters and his left-wing rivals. Any major concessions to Tshombe will produce charges from Communist-supported Gizenga that the central government has sold out to the colonial interests. Adoula's prestige has not been helped by the fact that, so far at least, the U.N. has operated against Katanga entirely without the help of the central government's weak, undisciplined army. Adoula eagerly offered this help...
Negotiating an agreement with Tshombe, tempering the bitterness left in Katanga, strengthening Adoula enough to enable him to cope with Gizenga, building a reasonably efficient and civilized administration in the Congo-all these are staggering tasks looming beyond the battle of Katanga. It is inconceivable that they can be carried out by the Congolese without outside help, which presumably will have to come from or through the U.N. Contemplating the travail of the Congo, which has a large Roman Catholic population, Pope John XXIII said last week: "Just as it was about to harvest, from political independence, the long-awaited...
Smith proposed "some sort of confederation" after cessation of U.N. operations. He also protested the lack of action against the government of leftist Antoine Gizenga...
...activities against the central government and against secessionist forces." As Stevenson's original amendment urged, U Thant pluckily proposed that the Congolese army be reorganized and retrained; this would put the troops into the hands of the central government-and out of the hands of such rebels as Gizenga...