Word: kalonji
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Wooed back to the Congo, Tshombe claimed the allegiance of every major faction. Wheeling and dealing as if every card were a wild deuce, Tshombe seemed to hold a royal flush ranging from Kasai's rightist "King" Albert Kalonji through such "moderate" face cards as Army Boss Joseph Mobutu and Justice Minister Justin Bomboko to the Communist-backed National Lib eration Committee's Andre Lubaya. But the N.L.C. could still prove a joker in Tshombe's hand: Leftist Antoine Gizenga still languished in forced exile last week on an island at the mouth of the Congo River...
...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...
...Free Us! Free Us!" The Mulopwe accepted readily, flew in from Europe in such haste that none of his political allies were on hand at the airport to meet him. Balancing the return of Kalonji and Tshombe was the elimination of Jason Sendwe, leader of Katanga's once rebellious Baluba tribe and provincial president of north Katanga. Captured two weeks ago, Sendwe and three of his lieutenants were knifed to death in Albertville by the Jeunesse, according to reliable reports. With the aid of the survivors, Adoula could form a compromise regime to keep some kind of order...
...slipped out of his jail last month and fled back to his little Kasai capital of Bakwanga. At last Adoula decided to act. ordered a group of army officers to fly off to Bakwanga and take over. It was easy, for a restive and well-bribed faction of Kalonji's own troops quickly joined the invaders. King Albert once again made his getaway; according to rumor, he took three cases of diamonds with him. At week's end the fleeing monarch turned up in Katanga, presumably getting sympathy from fellow separatist Moise Tshombe...
...Kalonji's escape was hard to swallow, but the central government had made its point with the people who count-the Belgian diamond operators. Hurriedly, their chief flew to Leopoldville from Brussels, agreed henceforth to hand over the diamond operation's lavish cash benefits to Adoula's treasury...