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...landslide came as a very mixed blessing to President Joseph Kasavubu, who saw in Tshombe a powerful potential rival for his own job as President. During his five-year term, which ends in December, Kasavubu had used his constitutional powers to hire and fire three Premiers, and he seemed to be moving against Moise. In a radio broadcast...
...Kasavubu announced that Tshombe's provisional Government of Public Welfare had served its purpose-and would be dissolved "as soon as the definite election results are known." Kasavubu himself would name a new interim Cabinet, which could presumably cut into Tshombe's strength by ordering new elections in all provinces where the Conaco slate had run unopposed...
...policy, Williams said, has always been based on support of the central Congolese government and its prime ministers, from Lumumba to Tshombe. He said the U.S. had no forewarning that Congolese President Kasavubu would choose Tshombe as Prime Minister and added that there is "absolutely no truth to the assertion that we encouraged Tshombe's return...
Seeking the Scapegoat. It was. For as morning became afternoon, and afternoon became evening, there was no Kasavubu-and in fact no voting. Throughout the city, not a single polling place opened its doors. At some there were no ballot boxes, at others no pencils. Almost none had received the voting sheets for all 43 contending parties. Frantic district poll officials swarmed to the headquarters of the electoral commission on the Avenue des Victimes de la Rébellion to find out what was wrong. They blanched at the scene: small boys toting huge piles of ballots dumped their loads...
Tactful Observers. The second try was hardly more successful than the first. President Kasavubu and some 2,000 other citizens succeeded in marking their ballots, but no one else made the grade. The government had to dispatch squads of paracommandos to keep frustrated voters from breaking into the polls, and Premier Moise Tshombe called an emergency Cabinet meeting to reschedule the elections...