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...month. By decree from Brussels, the Congo's 115,000 whites are not allowed to vote, and most of the half-naked, illiterate black voters had no idea what the candidates were talking about. There were 65 parties in the field. The Abako party's crafty Joseph Kasavubu sought to split off his Lower Congo region and make it autonomous. Secession-minded Moise Tshombe's Conakat group, 1,000 miles away in Elisabethville, was demanding the same privilege for its mineral-rich Katanga province, which produces 65% of all the Congo's income. Each was fighting...
...object of international trade." In Paris, French officials sought to mollify the protesting Belgian ambassador: they were just pointing out the old agreement, not making something of it. But the Belgians were not easily reassured, for their Lower Congo is controlled by fire-breathing Congolese Politician Joseph Kasavubu, who for weeks has been demanding just what the French seem to want-that the region be allowed to stay out of an independent Congo and form a separate state, perhaps in league with the adjoining French-influenced Congo Republic. Kasavubu recently moved his family from Leopoldville across the river to Brazzaville...
...orderly Belgians, the Congo conference in Brussels had been a three-week nightmare. Even as they were preparing to announce the Congo's imminent independence, Joseph Kasavubu, 42, the top Congolese leader, stomped out of the conference and disappeared for two weeks. Another delegate, for obscure reasons, packed up and vanished in the direction of Communist East Berlin. New delegations arrived almost daily from the Congo and demanded places at the talks; by last week nearly 100 were seated around the table, and, transporting them by limousines having proved impossible, they moved from hotels to sessions in chartered streetcars...
...Kasavubu's Abako group campaigned for a loose federal system in the new Congo, since its strength is mostly confined to the Leopoldville province. Lumumba, whose party group has wider geographical sup port, felt he would do better with a centralized regime. In the end the Belgians worked out a compromise modeled on the U.S. system with elaborate assurances of local and provincial authority...
...your own interests. The time has come to satisfy the legitimate aspirations of the Congolese, and at the same time avoid the disappointments of uncontrolled evolution . . . Belgium spontaneously and generously calls the Congo to a near independence." One reply, scrawled with chalk on a Stanleyville wall: "Vive le Rot Kasavubu, Au Revoir Baudouin...