Word: katanga
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Back to Leopoldville from a week-long tour of his native Katanga flew Premier Moise Tshombe. He had ceaselessly exhorted rural Africans to till the land and urban Africans to keep their hands out of the till, and had been cheered to the echo wherever he went. His most delicate mission, however, was to soothe the 4,000 grumbling ex-gendarmes who once served him admirably in the old secessionist days, and who had waited with forlorn fidelity in Angola during Tshombe's exile from the Congo. Now the troops were billeted uncomfortably in railroad boxcars at the mining...
Back to the Manioc. The men of Katanga, particularly those in government, have no greater desire than to appear évolués (progressive) in the eyes of visiting African and European dignitaries. But they learned long ago that their wives would be no help. Usually married by 15 and quickly saddled with the burdens of multiple motherhood, the Katangese wife has no time to acquire social graces. At a formal affair, she usually sits immobile, responding to conversational gambits with an agonized oui or non, counting the minutes until she can return to her manioc masher...
...army high command not to overextend their supply lines. The mercenaries - mostly Southern Rhodesians - cut down 160 of the 3,000 well-armed rebel defenders, had to drive their Jeeps over mounds of rebel dead to enter the Moyen Congo provincial capital. Another mercenary band took back the North Katanga town of Kongolo, found that, as usual, the rebels had slaughtered the whole "intellectual" population of the town -anyone who could read and write...
Assemblage of Aphrodites. In the Katangese capital of Elisabethville, professionals of a different sort were performing. They wore such names as Alphonsine la Turbulente and Mathilde la Coquette, and they were competing for the title of Miss Katanga 1964. No ordinary beauty contest, this year's assemblage of African Aphrodites was hallmarked by the narcissistic story the girls planted in a local newspaper praising their own good looks. "My mirror says I can enter the competition without fearing the outcome," wrote Marie Framçoise la Sentimentale. "My fans say I am very seductive and I agree...
...Brigade of Guards officer, was recruiting 25 to 30 mercenaries a day. By week's end, Tshombe had gathered some 200 mercenaries. Early arrivals had already gone into action against the rebels-and lost. Led by two South African officers, a force of 35 mercenaries and 50 Katanga gendarmes attempted a daring, two-front commando raid on Albertville to rescue 140 European hostages held by Rebel Chieftain Gaston...