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Washington A. K. Omuko '62 spent the summer surveying the Congo situation and met both Kasavubu and Lumumba...
Omuko said, "It is the geenral consensus among African leaders" that the U.S. financed Kasavubu's trip to the U.N. when he was recognized as the Congo's representative. It has been further rumored, he added, that the West has been giving aid to Mobutu's army, which recently captured deposed Premier Lumumba...
...election, Omuko explained, Lumumba will most likely become the Congo's lawful leader if he remains alive. His election is very important, as he has more support from Africans inside and outside the Congo, than "any other leader," Omuko said. Kasavubu, the recognized President, has not complied with the promise to allow the Committee to enter, however. Nor has the West upheld the plan, he added, since Lumumba left...
...First Moves. This was not the only victory of the week for bespectacled little Colonel Mobutu. A few days later a dramatic reconciliation was arranged between Léopoldville and the long-rebellious province of Katanga. Three representatives of the Mobutu-Kasavubu regime flew to the Katanga capital of Elisabethville where they sat down with Katanga's President Moise Tshombe and issued a communiqué that for the first time promised a joint solution of the Congo's "internal problems," to be worked out next month at a round-table conference between the central government, Tshombe and other...
...After a bitter parliamentary fight, the General Assembly voted 53-24 to seat President Joseph Kasavubu as the legal representative of the Congo, overriding the diehard minority of Afro-Asians who still support his bitter rival, deposed Premier Patrice Lumumba...