Word: kasavubu
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...tall, mild Swede whose friendly new approach was working wonders with the Congolese central government. Unlike India's haughty Rajeshwar Dayal, Linner mixed freely with the Congolese. Said he: "We get along wonderfully well. I happen to like Africans." One result: after long, friendly talks with President Joseph Kasavubu, the U.N. chief was able to move his troops back into the Congo's main port of Matadi; only last March, angry Congolese infantrymen had blasted them out with mortars and machine guns...
...mission in the Congo last August. Almost before Dayal had settled into his glass-walled office in Léopoldville, chaos broke around his head. Erratic Patrice Lumumba wanted protection in his refuge in the Premier's residence. From his own villa near by, President Joseph Kasavubu sulked and hurled insults at the U.N. One afternoon Colonel Joseph Mobutu strode into Dayal's office, asked for a slug of Scotch, and announced that a coup d'état would take place within ten minutes...
...politely asked President Kasavubu to accord Tshombe "fair treatment and due process of law." But the U.N.'s special representative to the Congo, India's Rajeshwar Dayal, who had been quick to protest Kasavubu's least move to counter the machinations of pro-Communist Patrice Lumumba, uttered not a word of reproach. In fact he was still "consulting" in New York, and seemed disinclined to return to the Congo, where he seems to have incurred the displeasure of nearly all Congolese. Explained one observer: "In the next few weeks, it's just possible we will find...
...cultural ties to Belgium. He tried to keep the U.N. out of Katanga, strengthened his hand with hired mercenaries and Belgian advisers. While the rest of the Congo starved and squabbled. Tshombe prospered. He began to infuriate the Congolese leaders. When Tshombe boldly agreed to attend the Coquilhatville conference, Kasavubu saw his chance to pounce...
Tshombe came to Coquilhatville with the air of a man who was going to dictate his own terms. He declared that he would accept only a confederation in which Katanga would have nationhood of its own (and spend its own money). He mocked Kasavubu's willingness to cooperate with the U.N., got down on his knees to mime Kasavubu's attitude for news photographers. Once arrested, his mood changed. He became all oozing contrition. He begged for permission to rejoin the formal talks. The leaders refused but hauled him down from his villa prison for a private tongue...