Word: guinea
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...problem of supply is simple for the Communists but difficult for the U.S.-the Congo is a Russian strategic nightmare. Gizenga's headquarters in Stanleyville is 3,400 miles from the Russian border, 2,400 miles from supply depots in Sékou Touré's friendly Guinea...
Finding the Ford. Convinced that their hero had indeed been done in, eleven pro-Lumumba nations (Ghana, Guinea, Mali, Morocco, Libya, India, Indonesia, U.A.R., Ceylon, Russia and Yugoslavia) petitioned the U.N.'s Dag Hammarskjold for an immediate investigation. Moscow radio-which has reason to be expert in such matters-went on the air with a prediction that the whole escape story had been manufactured as a cover ("shot while escaping") to explain away the fact that Lumumba would be found dead. In Katanga, Moise Tshombe, busy in conferences with a visiting foreign dignitary, seemed totally unconcerned. "President Tshombe does...
...last week a Russian Ilyushin 18 turboprop airliner cruised along in the early afternoon sunshine. Alone in the blue skies at 28,000 ft., it had aboard the Soviets' figurehead of state, Chairman of the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet Leonid Brezhnev, 54, on his way to visit Guinea via a stopover in Morocco. At precisely 2:18 p.m. the Ilyushin got company...
Brezhnev can expect to harvest even more sympathy at his next stop, Sékou Touré's anti-French Communist-lining Guinea...
Bombs & Bullets. Whatever the obstacles, it was none too soon for a break in the bloody Congo deadlock. The U.N. force was losing troops; last week the U.A.R.'s 510-man unit and Guinea's 750 soldiers went home. Massive civil war was in the offing. A battalion of Mobutu's troops had driven deep into Eastern province in an effort to smash the pro-Lumumba forces of Antoine Gizenga in Stanleyville. Gizenga's own troops launched new forays into Kasai province. Rampaging Lumum-baists in Kivu ambushed 200 U.N. Nigerian soldiers, provoking a pitched, daylong...