Word: kasavubu
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...General Assembly as a last resort. With elections scheduled for next spring, the Congo's old extremists are lurking in the wings. Egide Davidson Bocheley, partisan of the erratic late Premier Patrice Lumumba, outlined his national policy recently at a press conference: "Kill Adoula! Kill [President Joseph] Kasavubu! Chase out the Americans!" Tshombe, relaxing in Spain after treatment for eye trouble and amoebic dysentery, has assured friends that he plans an active part in the campaign...
...with Tshombe on the way out, Youlou suddenly sailed across the Stanley Pool to make friends with the Leopoldville crowd. Then, looking like a shorter, soutaned version of Sonny Listen, he took off on a five-day tour of the country with Leopoldville's President Joseph Kasavubu. The Congolese bore no grudge. The day Youlou left for home, school was canceled in Leopoldville so the children could line his departure route...
Trumpets blared and drums rattled as the proud procession moved down Leopoldville's broad Boulevard Albert I to celebrate the Congo's second anniversary of independence. President Joseph Kasavubu and Premier Cyrille Adoula took the salute from the black soldiers of the new Garde Républicaine, who were decked out in powder-blue uniforms with black lace trimming and red feathered hats. Along the route, 20,000 Congolese added their cheers to the festive occasion...
...existence of an independent Katanga would be harmful to the West, since Africans would point to it as an example of neo-colonialism, as grounds for continuing distrust of the West," emphasized Dr. Antoine van Bilsen, former adviser to Congo president Joseph V. Kasavubu, in an interview yesterday...
...details of the story should be treated with caution, the U.N. commission concluded that the prisoners were murdered on Jan. 17, in all probability "in the presence of Tshombe and Munongo." Moreover, said the report, blame for the crime must be shared by Congolese Central Government President Joseph Kasavubu, who handed Lumumba over to Tshombe in the first place...