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...Moise Kapenda-or "beautiful Moses"-Tshombe took an estimated $20 million into his second exile, much of it collected through bribes and kickbacks. Behind he left a checkered legend. Older Congolese remember the prosperous times of his premiership; the young now revere Lumumba the leftist and revile his enemy. Whites still recall the man so cultured and well-spoken that many colonials considered him a "black European." But because Moise Tshombe relied to such an extent on white advice and white arms, his name is no longer beautiful in much of black Africa. Indeed, like that of Norwegian Vidkun Quisling...
...have taken it away from him. Rather than lead the country, charge his critics, Kasavubu just sits on the terrace of the presidential mansion "watching the bodies of his enemies float past in the Congo River below." Last week who should go floating past but his fourth Premier, Moise Kapenda Tshombe...
...severe black suit, grinning like an African Fernandel. Burly, rifle-swinging Congolese cops and nervous Surete plainclothesmen hustled him into a black Chevy Impala with government plates, and off he sped into the flower-and sewage-scented dark. Thus last week with fanfare and foreboding did Moise Kapenda ("Moses the Beloved") Tshombe return to the Congo...
...Tshombe grew to manhood, the first son of the region's richest tribesman. His father Joseph was a thriving merchant with a string of 16 village stores that eventually grew into a sawmill, a hotel, plantations, a fleet of trucks, and a proud title for his firm: "J. Kapenda Tshombe et Fils." Joseph Tshombe became, in fact, the first Congolese franc millionaire...
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