Word: gizenga
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...wide support for his proposal to strengthen both U Thant and the Congolese central government in the struggle against all rebels and secessionists still stirring trouble in the Congo. But the Soviet Union's Valerian Zorin was anxious to protect one of the worst troublemakers, Red-backed Antoine Gizenga of Eastern province; tossing two rapid-fire vetoes, Russia's Zorin declined to approve any measure not directed exclusively against anti-Communist Moise Tshombe of Katanga. To prevent total deadlock and inaction, Stevenson reluctantly gave U.S. approval to the narrower, Soviet-favored proposal...
...villagers to expand their scraggly little farm plots. In Leopoldville, things seemed normal enough: harassed Premier Cyrille Adoula, struggling to hold his limping central government together, still pondered ways to whip Katanga's Secessionist Moise Tshombe into line, and noted nervously that Eastern Province's Antoine Gizenga talked of breaking away again to win autonomy for his own ragtag region. At U.N. headquarters, staffers looked forward to National Army Day, which, the army promised, would be celebrated by no parades-just by "calm and dignity...
...Kivu Province, an area of the eastern Congo lightly controlled by local authorities and protected only by a 200-man U.N. garrison of Malayan soldiers. The newcomers were technically members of General Joseph Mobutu's central Congo army; in fact they took orders from Eastern Province's Gizenga, eager to expand his influence into Kivu. They were a surly lot who paid scant attention to the orders of their commander, Colonel Alphonse Pakassa. And like most Congolese soldiers, they were willing to listen to any rumor that came along...
Hottest rumor of the week followed the arrival one sultry forenoon of two planeloads of U.N. Italian crewmen who had ferried in a shipment of U.N. scout cars for Kindu's Malayan garrison. "Belgian paratroops!" cried Gizenga's men as they hopped into trucks for the dash to the airport. Bursting into the nearby Malayan officers' mess, where the 13 Italian flyers were having lunch, the Congolese soldiers grabbed the "Belgian" crewmen and hustled them off to a jail near town. Two Italians shouted their protests in French as they waved U.N. identity cards. "Ah, Flemish!" cried...
...Congo government prepared for action. Premier Cyrille Adoula, ordinarily a moderate man, went into a rage over Katanga's refusal to give in. General Joseph Mobutu, commander in chief of the army, started massing troops in a staging area across the border from Katanga, probably to forestall Gizenga, who reportedly was doing the same with his own private troops...